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Give an example of a project where you had to coordinate between multiple stakeholders with conflicting priorities. How did you negotiate scope, timelines, and resources to produce an agreed project plan?
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On a recent cross‑functional initiative to launch a new internal reporting dashboard, I had product, finance, and operations all pulling in different directions. Product wanted a pixel‑perfect MVP in 6 weeks, finance needed complex drill‑downs for audit, and operations mainly cared about stability and training. I started by getting everyone in the same (virtual) room and mapping their must‑haves vs nice‑to‑haves on a single shared doc. That let us cut initial scope by about 35% without anyone feeling ignored. I then proposed a phased plan: phase 1 focused on 6 core KPIs for 200 finance users; phase 2 added the advanced drill‑downs and ops workflows. To protect the 8‑week timeline, I negotiated one additional backend engineer and dropped two low‑value visualizations. We launched phase 1 on time, with 92% adoption in the first month and a 20% reduction in manual report requests, and everyone could see their priorities reflected in the roadmap.

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Aligning conflicting priorities through a shared must-have vs nice-to-have exerciseIntroducing a phased roadmap to balance scope and timelineNegotiating both scope tradeoffs and a small resource increaseQuantifying adoption and impact after launch
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