1) Your team wants full autonomy, but the last release slipped due to unclear ownership. How do you tighten accountability without killing initiative? 2) A well liked PM is missing critical deadlines. How do you address performance while safeguarding psychological safety? 3) Two PMs have overlapping mandates and are escalating. How do you deliver constructive feedback that de escalates and aligns on outcomes? 4) What if a new exec arrives with a different product philosophy (e.g., sales led vs. product led)? What do you keep, change, stop? How do you reframe goals and OKRs within 2 weeks? 5) What if there’s a hiring freeze mid year? Which initiatives do you pause, merge, or sunset? How do you communicate trade offs to the team and stakeholders? 6) What if an internal survey shows a 12 point drop in “clarity of strategy”? 7) What artifacts (narrative, roadmap, outcomes tree) do you produce in 10 days to restore clarity? 8) What assumptions are you making about motivation, incentives, or org constraints?  9) What leading indicators would tell you your approach is working (or failing) within 2 sprints?  10) Where might your plan create unintended consequences (e.g., shadow roadmaps, hero culture)?

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