Describe a time that you took a risk?

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Aaron · Accepted Answer

One of my previous projects involved managing a large scaled database managment
systems application. This project was to mimick online shopping tools such as
Amazon.  This project was a semester long and my teammates were getting
frustrated with the lack of progression approaching the deadline. We did not
implement main features such making orders and changing customer information to
reflect correctly within the database.  I took a risk and decided to pivot our
strategy, which invovled leading our focus on the functionality and prioritizing
main features. The outcome of this proposal guided my teammates and myself to
implement key features before the deadline. Due to this risk, we were able to
create a professional ordering system which accurately reflected adding records
in the database. This was completed before the deadline. After explaining the
situation to our professor, she was imcpressed with the agility and decision
making after this event.

Anonymous · Answer

One of my previous projects involved managing a large scaled database managment
systems application. This project was a semester long and my teammates were
getting frustrated with the lack of progression approaching the deadline. I took
a risk and decided to pivot our strategy, which invovled leading our focus on
the functionality and prioritizing main features. The outcome of this proposal
guided my teammates and myself to implement key features before the deadline.
After explaining the situation to our professor, she was impressed with the
agility and decision making after this event.

Anonymous · Answer

During final stages of testing upgraded version of core banking applications, we
encountered a defect which required resolution from development team. After dev
deployed the defect, I had very limited time to thoroughly retest and perform
regression.
My task was to perform retesting and make sure there are no major defects after
the release.
After resolution, based on my prior knowledge of the apps I grouped those
testcases that had a potential impact to run automation regression to speed up
the testing. While I manually tested the defects with some edge case scenarios. 
I kept the cross functional team updated about the testing progress and the risk
involved if testing wasn't completed on time. 
But, I was able to mitigate the risk of not completing the testing on time and
major risk of unexpected issues with the help to prior knowledge and proactive
communication.
Thus, I learnt from this incident to carefully strategizing the situation and
collaborative approach can help to mitigate risks.

Anonymous · Answer

A time where I handled a risky situation was when I needed to ask my manager to
take PTO for a trip that I had originally planned before being assigned to the
project. It was a risky situation because of the timeline at work and of how
busy it would be at that time. I discussed with my manager about taking the time
off, which he was a bit hesitant to approve of. What I did was that I talked
with to figure out a solution to this problem where I could take the time off,
as this was a very important trip for me to go on.

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