Verified interview challenge
Discover an airline operations problem
Turn an airline CTO's broad operational complaint into questions that can guide what to build.
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On the first call, an airline CTO describes operators manually rescheduling work when aircraft break or schedules change. Nothing has been signed or scoped. You need to understand what those operators are trying to accomplish before turning a broad request for help into an engineering project.
What you'll practise
Understanding the workflow
Ask about the decisions operators make and the constraints a useful intervention would have to respect.
Questions that change the scope
Explain how each answer affects what you would build, rather than collecting background for its own sake.
Explain how the answers would change the decision or scope.