Project Delivery and Accountability Questions
How you ensure projects stay on track, handle scope creep, communicate delays to leadership, recover from setbacks, balance technical excellence with delivery, and take ownership of outcomes even when multiple factors are involved.
MediumTechnical
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Your CI pipeline is allowing flaky tests and regressions to reach production. Propose a prioritized plan with both immediate quick wins (e.g., quarantine flaky tests, add triage labels) and long-term fixes (e.g., test ownership, increased test determinism, infrastructure improvements). Include suggested policies, tooling, and developer practices to prevent regressions over time.
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Design a company-wide framework to quantify team-level ownership of production outcomes. Propose measurable indicators (e.g., time-to-acknowledge alerts, mean-time-to-recover, error budget burn rate, on-call handover completeness), data sources, thresholds that trigger action, and a governance model to ensure teams take responsibility for production outcomes without micromanagement. Explain how the framework promotes continuous improvement.
EasyTechnical
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What five metrics would you track to assess the health of a two-week sprint (for example: sprint velocity, burndown rate, escaped defects, cycle time, blocked days)? For each metric explain (a) why it matters, (b) what a negative trend would indicate, and (c) one concrete follow-up action you would take if you observed that negative trend.
EasyTechnical
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Describe how you would communicate a two-week delay in your team's deliverable to both your product manager and to senior leadership. Include: (1) the exact content you would convey (impact, cause, options), (2) the channels and timing you would use (email + sync vs ad-hoc meeting), and (3) the mitigation options and recommended next steps. Explain how you would tailor the message for technical and non-technical audiences and how you would document the decision so it is auditable later.
HardTechnical
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Create a decision framework to evaluate build vs. buy for a piece of tooling that affects delivery speed (for example, an internal CI orchestration platform). Consider total cost of ownership, integration effort, time-to-value, vendor lock-in, support/SLAs, and maintainability. Provide the decision steps, criteria, and sample quantitative thresholds you would use to choose build or buy.
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