FinSight, a B2B SaaS analytics company, is launching a new executive dashboard for enterprise customers in 10 weeks. The project involves a 9-person cross-functional team spanning product, engineering, design, data, and customer success. The launch is high priority because two strategic customers have renewal decisions tied to better executive reporting, and leadership wants the feature announced at the company’s quarterly customer event.
The VP of Product wants a polished launch on the committed date. The Engineering Manager wants to reduce scope to protect quality and avoid weekend work. Sales wants customer-facing messaging and demos ready early for pipeline deals. Customer Success needs clear enablement materials because existing customers have different reporting workflows and may be confused by changes.
You have a fixed budget of $120,000 remaining, no approval for additional headcount, and a hard launch deadline in 10 weeks. The team includes 4 engineers, 1 designer, 1 data analyst, 1 PM, 1 QA lead, and 1 customer success manager. A dependency on the data platform team requires API changes by Week 4, but that team can only provide 6 engineering days total. Executive updates are expected weekly, while customer-facing teams need training materials at least 2 weeks before launch.