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.
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Your team's current deployment frequency is twice a month; leadership wants weekly deployments to accelerate feedback. Propose a 12-week roadmap with three concrete engineering and process changes (for example: reduce CI build time via parallelization, introduce trunk-based development and feature flags, enforce smaller PRs and merge checks) that would enable weekly deployments while maintaining or improving quality. Include risk mitigations.
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Propose a set of SLIs, SLOs, and an error budget policy for a high-throughput service that must innovate quickly while maintaining reliability. Provide example numeric thresholds (e.g., availability 99.95% monthly, p99 latency < X ms), describe how you would measure and aggregate these metrics, and explain how error budget consumption would gate releases or trigger mitigation actions.
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Your company has a tight market deadline but the system requires a significant refactor to scale reliably. Explain how you would present trade-off options to leadership (full refactor with delay, partial refactor plus feature reductions, or ship now then prioritize tech work), list metrics you'd use to compare options (e.g., expected MTTR, latency, throughput, time-to-market impact), and propose a staged delivery plan that balances risk and speed.
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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.
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You own a feature where three other teams (API, Auth, Billing) provide critical inputs. Midway through your sprint, one dependency team signals a 6-business-day delay. Draft a mitigation plan covering: immediate actions (0–48 hours), medium-term actions (this sprint and next), how you would update stakeholders (format and cadence), and how you'd adjust sprint commitments and acceptance criteria to preserve delivery confidence.
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