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Describe a time when you identified an opportunity that people needed to be persuaded to take advantage of.

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Anonymous

4.6Exceptional
To support the goal of making Windows OS the more stable it was important to reduce crashes due to driver and hardware issues. There are two types of drivers kernel mode and user mode. A fault in the kernel mode driver freezes the OS but a fault in User mode driver doesn't. My task was to convince all the teams that owned kernel mode drivers to migrate them to user mode. We identified 90 different candidates and developed a plan to convince them to migrate. This involved providing a clear how to migrate documentation, automated tools and test cases for migration, we also updated the user mode driver framework so its interface exactly matched kernel mode driver framework. In some cases, my team had to do significant portion of the migration for the candidate team. After we migrated some drivers, we shared the best practices and results with other teams to increase adoption. Over the span of 1 year we were able to get 30% of the drivers migrated to UMDF which greatly increased the OS stability and reduced memory requirements of the OS by 40 MB. To summarize, I successfully persuaded many teams to migrate to user mode driver by providing clear documentation, rationale for migration,  test cases, automated tools and finally showcasing migration success stories in the organization through regular status updates.

Anonymous

4Strong
As the technical lead for automation I identified an opportunity to improve the build/test/release infrastructure as well as improving the time to market, reducing defects in the final product and reducing stress generated during release season.
Even though the benefits were clear the general consensus from leadership was that achieving those goals would require years of effort and distracting from the operational work.
I had to create a program, execution plan and a proof of concept to convince my manager and leadership that it was feasible to work on the new project with no major disruption to the operational work.
This was possible because the first few tasks to tackle saved resources that could be reallocated to other projects. An example of this was replacing the local build infrastructure with cloud based infrastructure and relocating the person in charge of the maintenance of the local infrastructure to work in other projects.

Anonymous

3.4Strong
To think about the opportunity, I would say we lately had a product acquisition .We have Retail and Fin Tech part of a product , which runs with different Engineering Teams.  While, the proposal seemed to be unique and beneficial in terms of having a Financial Stability, there  was still a doubt among the executives wether  we should continue with the acquisition or operate independently.  Taking into account what would be the higher and lower impact of the acquisition and what the acquisition would bring on to the table, I was able to persuade the team to go with the acquisition.
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