Please share with me a time when you identified an opportunity that needed a lot of convincing for people to buy into.

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

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 · Answer

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 · Answer

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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