I want to hear about a time when you had to compromise

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

In my role as a Systems Analyst, I once was the lead developer of a project
where the client requested additional features that weren’t in the initial
scope. While I wanted to deliver these enhancements, our team was already under
tight deadlines. After discussing with team lead, I compromised by prioritizing
the high-impact features the client needed immediately, while deferring others
for future phases. This solution balanced the client's requests with our time
constraints, ensuring timely delivery and maintaining client satisfaction. This
experience taught me how to make balanced, strategic decisions that align
stakeholder expectations with project limitations.

Anonymous · Answer

One requirement was completely missed by the cross-functional team. The
requirement pertains to Oracle Transportation Management and involves
incorporating a specific lane to deliver goods from the contract manufacturer to
the destination warehouse, and subsequently to the customer. This lane includes
specific lane sheet changes and logic that needed to be addressed by the
cross-track team to accommodate these CDC orders.
Unfortunately, this requirement was overlooked during Test Cycle 2, leading to
testing failures. As a result, we had to close Test Cycle 2. Within two weeks,
UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and BAT (Business Acceptance Testing) were
scheduled to begin. However, the cross-track team required additional time to
incorporate the missed requirement.
This left us with limited time to complete testing before UAT and BAT. To meet
the project timeline, I collaborated with the team to work over 2-3 weekends,
ensuring end-to-end testing and defect resolution were completed. I also
convinced the team to accept compensatory time off after the completion of BAT
and UAT. Ultimately, the team successfully implemented the change without
impacting the overall project timeline.

Anonymous · Answer

Sure, back when I was working at OpenText there was an issue related to best
framework for automating our test cases. And we had an inhouse framework that
was a variation of Selenium so that was present as an option but since I was
tasked in finding the best framework that would have better test coverage I
ventured out and tried to find a better one. On top of that I just had a two
weeks to find a framework and also complete the testing so that the product can
go for production. Given the time constraints it was difficult to go for new
framework so I had to compromise and complete the test cases using the inhouse
framework and then once we had a successful release I made sure to venture out
and try out different frameworks like Puppeteer, Playwright. And after that we
struck out with Puppeteer but yeah I had to compromise on picking out puppeteer
before the release but after the release we migrated towards puppeteer.

Anonymous · Answer

When I developed the tools to review the high-risk customers transactions, I
started alone and did it in my own way. When I started collaborating with
colleagues, they brought their own feedback and had their own ideas on what
should be included in the tool; I did not agree with all of their ideas. However
what is most important is our common mission, our common goal; since a whole
team is going to use this tool, it is important that they feel that their
opinion is valued too, and so I compromised and added all of their ideas to the
tool.

Anonymous · Answer

At Auctane, I had a senior dev working on tech debt, this was critical for some
small segment of customers and my PM was looking forward to it being devliered.
A churn happend on other team and they had a higher priority project. That EM
approaced me to help him deliver the project. I had to reshffle the resource and
had to push back on the timing for this tech debt project . The compramise I
made was to put hold the project we had been working and convince my PM that
this was most optimal approach for the company.

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