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IntermediateBEHAVIORAL
Tell me about a time you had to re-baseline or significantly revise a project plan due to a major change in scope, budget, or resources. How did you manage the change process and gain stakeholder buy-in?
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On a customer platform overhaul I led, we were halfway through a 9‑month roadmap when our budget was cut by 30% and headcount dropped from 8 engineers to 5. Our original plan covered six major capabilities; with the new constraints, that just wasn’t realistic. I pulled the core team and key business partners into a two‑day working session to ruthlessly re-prioritize around revenue impact and regulatory deadlines. We moved to three phased releases, cut two low-ROI features, and simplified one integration that was consuming roughly 25% of the effort. I documented the new baseline in a one-page summary: scope changes, timeline shifts (from 9 to 11 months), and risk tradeoffs. Then I held short briefings with sales, support, and finance to walk through the logic and show we still protected 90% of the projected revenue uplift. Because people saw the data and had a voice in the tradeoffs, we got quick alignment and very little escalation afterward.

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Concrete trigger: 30% budget cut and reduced team size mid-projectCollaborative re-prioritization with business based on ROI and deadlinesClear communication of new scope, timeline, and tradeoffs with simple artifactsOutcome: preserved ~90% of planned revenue impact despite extended timeline
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