A Critical Dependency Just Slipped 6 Weeks (TPM)

What interviewers evaluate

• Do you interrogate what exactly slipped instead of taking the headline at face value?
• Do you try to narrow the required interface before pulling bigger levers?
• Do you work an ordered option stack (stub, descope, lend capacity, escalate, move date)?
• Do you escalate with cost-of-delay data and without ambushing the other team?
• Do you communicate immediately and add prevention (contracts, integration checkpoints)?

A framework to structure your answer

1. Interrogate the slip - what exactly slipped? Their deliverable is bigger than your dependency; map your minimal required contract against their revised plan.

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