Suppose you face a delay in your first milestone - how will you deal with this?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I think the most probable thing to do is to find out the Root cause of the
delay. To check which area of work did not turn out to be well . Once we know
the root cause, the next step being what suitable measures, we could think of to
make sure we take the preventive steps to avoid any such delay in future, One
such scenario I could think about in my project  is,  client coming up with a
feature change at a very later stage of sprint end. At this moment of time ,
when we are close to the sprint release,  possible measures , we thought of
 discussing on the action items with the engineers and come up with suitable
time line or if we could take the feature as an intermediate hotfix after the
current release, so that the current release is not blocked.

Anonymous · Answer

First and foremost I would ensure to keep relevant stakeholders engaged with
constant communication on the reason why I failed to reach the milestone. I
would also apologize for the same and communicate a timeline when I would be
able to deliver the same. Secondly, I would do a root cause analysis on why I
failed to deliver the milestone and based on the issue, I would get the relevant
resources to address the problem. If it is out of my team's control, I would
communicate with the relevant team to see to it that we work across the two
functional teams to solve the problem.

Suppose you face a delay in your first milestone - how will you deal with this?

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