Project Planning and Prioritization Questions

Covers end to end approaches for defining, scoping, scheduling, and executing projects while making trade off driven prioritization decisions. Candidates should be able to break down complex initiatives into phases and milestones, estimate timelines and resources, identify and sequence dependencies, determine critical paths, and create realistic schedules. Demonstrate frameworks and criteria for prioritization such as impact versus effort, business value, urgency, technical debt, team capacity, and strategic alignment, and explain how to balance feature development, bug fixes, and maintenance. Include how to translate strategy to implementation plans, allocate resources, coordinate across design and engineering, manage changing scope, handle timeline compression and risks, and communicate status and trade offs to stakeholders to secure buy in and ensure delivery.