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If you were given a project deadline and limited resources, how would you complete the project successfully?
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Anonymous
5 months ago
Align on clear requirements, identify dependencies and stakeholders, secure partner commits, track burndown, unblock teams, maintain risk inventory and key decision logs. Trade off between resource, time or scope. Example, we wanted to deliver for a pilot milestone with a hard deadline. The level of effort for the P0 requirements was very high requiring 4 SDEs for 3 sprints but we had only 2 SDE resources to work with. We revised and reprioritized the P0s with our product manager and delivered for the pilot in time.
Anonymous
5 months ago
Must define what is the scope of project, have a clear and useful gantt chart, allocate member to do multiple task without impact to critical path
Anonymous
6 months ago
When a project comes with stringent timelines and limited resources, we should keep the following pointers in mind.
1. Business impact: Firstly we need to understand how the business will be impacted by this feature and set the priority of the program accordingly with all the stakeholders involved.
2. Program tracking: Considering the criticality of the program, the execution should be monitored closely, to reduce any bottle neck situation and fix issues in a lower TAT.
3. Appraise the Stakeholders: Send out program status reports on a daily basis to appraise the stakeholders of the status, any critical blockers that would require immediate attention.
4. Limited changes to scope: Avoid any critical change to the scope, to mitigate derailment from the aligned plan.
5. Peer to Peer programming: Instead of following scrum based approach, we can utilize the extreme program approach of the agile methodology. This will allow a lot of the execution phase deliverables (like development, component testing, etc) to happen in parallel and help in better management of the timelines.
6. Plan B: Have an alignment for backup resources, in case there are unplanned leaves within the existing team.
Interview question asked to candidates interviewing at top companies: If you were given a project deadline and limited resources, how would you complete the project successfully?.