Constraint and Risk Management Questions
Covers identifying and managing execution constraints and related risks that affect plans and roadmaps. Topics include resource constraints such as capacity, budget, and talent, prioritization tradeoffs, technical debt versus feature investment decisions, contingency and mitigation planning, risk registers, scenario planning, and communication strategies for stakeholders when constraints cause scope or timeline changes. Candidates should be able to demonstrate how they surface constraints early, quantify risk impacts, and negotiate tradeoffs to meet business objectives.
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Design a scoring algorithm (describe mathematically and in pseudocode) for the following selection problem: Given N backlog items each with business value v_i, estimated effort e_i, and dependency edges between items, select a subset that maximizes total business value subject to total effort <= E and dependency constraints (an item can only be selected if all its prerequisites are selected). Discuss computational complexity and propose practical approximations for large N.
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Explain what a contingency plan is and produce a concise contingency checklist you would prepare for a production launch that depends on third-party APIs. Your checklist should include technical, operational, and communication items.
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Describe how you would apply Monte Carlo simulation to estimate the expected monetary value (EMV) of a product roadmap under different risk scenarios. Include how you would model inter-risk dependencies, select distributions for inputs, run simulations, and use outputs to decide contingency budgets and prioritization.
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You are in pre-sales and suspect a capacity constraint that could threaten delivery if the customer's user estimates materialize. List at least five specific discovery questions you would ask the customer or your engineering team to validate and quantify the capacity constraint, and explain the reasoning behind each question.
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Design an escalation and governance model for when constraints (budget, staffing, compliance) threaten committed roadmap deliverables. Specify roles, decision authorities, SLA for escalation response, tooling integrations, and how to enforce time-bound decisions to avoid paralysis.
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