Give an example of a mission or goal you didn't think was achievable. What was it and how did you help your team try to achieve it? Were you successful in the end?

Situation - I was once assigned as the product manager for major streaming services product. The product was to be launched in 12 months and before launch, it was required to consolidate 3 content pipelines and video player SDK. This was tough since there was no documentation available on these pipelines, large number of associated development stakeholders and people who developed those pipelines had long left the company

Task- Colloborate with number of stakeholders viz. development, content pipeline users etc. to understand the existing pipeline and agree on requirements for a consolidated newer pipeline. There were atleast 40-50 stakeholders involved

Action-

I started off with conducting learning sessions with individual development to team to understand how each pipeline works and created basis documentation

Once this was created, I conducted discussions with the content pipeline owners to understand how they used the existing pipeline and expectations from a the upgraded pipeline

Then, got both the development and content pipeline stakeholders together and gained trust and agreement on the new set of features, tradeoffs and timelines. The timelines were then adjusted against the front end feature development roadmap

Result- As we had colloboration with all stakeholders, there was a sense of ownership on the timelines as well as the feature prioritization. Teams also compensated for each other whenever one team was falling behind on their development schedule. The trade offs helped set expectations with the business team on the key features that would be available for MVP and subsequent launches