Meta plans to launch a new Instagram safety intervention that automatically limits suspicious DM requests for teen accounts in the US, UK, and Canada. The work is 8 weeks from the public launch date, and you are the Operations Manager coordinating a 16-person cross-functional team across Instagram Product, Integrity, Data Science, Engineering, Legal, and Comms. Two days before the final go/no-go review, a logging issue in internal dashboards means only 62% of the expected quality and impact data is available.
The VP of Instagram Integrity wants to launch on time due to a public safety commitment announced at an external policy event. Legal and Public Policy are more conservative and want stronger evidence that the intervention will not incorrectly block legitimate teen-to-teen communication. Engineering wants to avoid another delay because the same release train also includes unrelated Instagram DM infrastructure changes already scheduled in production. Data Science believes the partial data is directionally positive, but confidence intervals are wider than planned.
You have 48 hours to recommend a decision. The remaining project budget is $180,000, with only $40,000 uncommitted for additional analysis, manual review, or launch support. The team cannot add headcount. The launch train is fixed for next Tuesday; missing it pushes the next broad rollout window by 4 weeks. Current data covers 3.1M eligible accounts instead of the planned 5.0M, and manual reviewer capacity is capped at 12,000 cases over the next 5 days.