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Critical Data Dependency Delay

Project Management · advanced

You're leading the launch of a new AI-powered recommendation engine for your e-commerce platform. A critical data pipeline dependency, owned by another team, has just announced a 3-week delay, directly pushing out your engine's launch. What's your immediate action plan?

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Pavlo’s approach

First, I would discuss with the another team if it's possible to break down the implementation by some meaningful parts which can be delivered gradually. If not and that's a strict delay, then I would inform all the stakeholders about the delay. Then I would work with marketing team who is responsible to present the feature to the final users, so they can adjust their plans accordingly. And finally I would discuss the workload for the team who was preparing the release, so they will start working on other things during the delay.