Scenario: 72-Hour VP-Level Recommendation on Expanding a New Quoting Workflow

You have 72 hours to deliver a VP-level deck recommending whether to expand a new quoting workflow. Stakeholders are misaligned (PM prioritizes speed-to-ship, Operations prioritizes professional quality, Sales prioritizes near-term volume). The data landscape is messy: multiple Snowflake tables, some stale dashboards, and experiment logs with missing fields.

Describe, in concrete steps:

1. Clarify goals and alignment: How you will lock a single decision question, define must-have metrics and guardrails, and secure stakeholder sign-off within the first 6 hours.
2. Plan and delegation: How you break down work across 2 ICs (one analytics, one engineering), set SLAs, create a risk register, and design a daily checkpoint cadence. Include a RACI snapshot.
3. Data triage under ambiguity: Your approach to schema discovery, sampling checks, reconciling conflicting sources, and documenting known data quality gaps with impact assessment and contingency paths.
4. Narrative and persuasion: The storyline of the deck (1-page exec summary, metric deep-dives, trade-off analysis, recommendation with confidence intervals), how you pre-wire with critics, and how you handle live pushback with alternative scenarios.
5. Decision and follow-through: The explicit go/no-go criteria, owner assignments, and a 2-week post-decision plan with success metrics and an incident rollback plan.
6. Leadership behaviors: Specific examples of how you model calm under time pressure, protect focus, and escalate appropriately without creating churn.