Estimation and Scheduling Questions
Estimating effort and building realistic schedules: estimation techniques, task sequencing, critical-path analysis, timeline development, and dependency mapping. Covers handling estimation uncertainty, schedule compression, and defending a timeline against optimism bias.
Construct a decision framework to determine when technical debt should be paid down during an implementation versus deferred. Include criteria such as severity, frequency, customer impact, remediation effort, and future velocity impact; propose a scoring model and explain how it integrates into prioritization and budgeting.
Which metrics would you track to determine whether your organization's timeline estimation quality is improving over time? Explain how you would instrument those metrics, the minimum data needed, and how you'd present results to both engineering and executive audiences.
Define change control in the context of product implementation and outline a lightweight change control process suitable for agile teams that minimizes delay but enforces governance when scope or requirements change mid-stream.
Explain how you'd perform effort and resource estimation for a cross-functional implementation using both bottom-up (task-level) and top-down (program-level) techniques. When is each approach preferable, and how would you reconcile them into a single plan with contingency buffers?
Explain a RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed) matrix and produce an example RACI assignment for these deployment tasks: requirements signoff, feature development, QA testing, production cutover, and sales enablement across engineering, QA, operations, legal, and sales.
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