In companies like Amazon, Google & Microsoft, “quality” is paramount! So during interview avoid compromising on quality even if your decisions impact scope, time and cost.

Project Management Triangle - Triple Constraints

Many times, program managers end up making decisions which will impact one of the Triple Constraints (Program Management Triangle). Below are a few examples.

Time:

• Increase the final delivery time to deliver everything in scope

Scope:

• Reduce the scope of the program to deliver on time

Cost:

• Add additional resources to the program for getting back on time

Quality:

• Reduce testing effort to release on time (never recommended for customer delivery)
• Making the engineers work overtime, impacts the quality if done consistently

Take a print out and write your personalized answer below

[Worksheet] Give an example of a situation where your decision impacted one or more of the triple constraints.

Nugget

There was a time…

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Situation

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Various Options you had

These could be

1. Time: Increase time to deliver everything in scope

2. Scope: Reduce the scope to deliver on time

3. Cost: Increase the resources to deliver on time and with the full scope

4. Quality: Reduce testing effort to release on time, with full scope, and lower cost (never recommended for customer delivery). Making the engineers work overtime, impacts the quality if done consistently.

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Action (The option you selected and why?)

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