Situational: The team is two sprints away from a product demo, but the current Excel tracker is creating manual work and inconsistent status reports. You can’t replace the whole system before the demo. What immediate actions would you take to stabilize reporting and handoffs for the demo, and how would you structure the roadmap and prioritized backlog to deliver a minimally viable system that reduces manual effort after the demo?

With two sprints left I’d focus on containment and a clear narrative for the demo. First I’d freeze noncritical changes, create a read-only canonical export of the Excel tracker and build a one-page dashboard (pivot + conditional formatting) that shows material status and pending handoffs for the demo. I’d assign field owners (5 people across PM, engineering, procurement) and run a 2-hour reconciliation to cut inconsistent entries by ~70% for the demo. For the post-demo roadmap I’d prioritize: 1) automated ingestion and validation (saves ~8 hours/week), 2) basic handoff workflow and notifications, 3) role-based views and audit trail. Backlog prioritization uses impact/cost (reduce manual effort, reduce meeting time by 50%) and delivers an MVP in 6–8 weeks, then iterative integrations with source systems in 3 months.