You’re leading an engineering initiative where the business is pushing for a fast delivery, but the team believes the quickest path will create technical debt that will slow future work. You need to decide how much short-term speed to optimize for without creating an unacceptable maintenance burden later.
Tell me about a time you had to make a trade-off between delivery speed and long-term maintainability. How did you assess the risks, align stakeholders, decide what to ship, and manage the consequences afterward?