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Balance Customer, Capacity, and Risk

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Scenario

You are the engineering manager for a customer-facing Autodesk workflow used by enterprise design teams. A critical issue has surfaced in production: a subset of users can lose unsaved work during a save-and-sync flow, and one large customer has escalated the problem as a blocker for renewal. At the same time, your team is in the middle of a planned release, two engineers are already committed to a separate security fix, and product is pushing to keep the roadmap intact because a launch demo is scheduled soon. You need to make a call that protects customers without overextending the team or creating avoidable business risk.

Constraints

DetailValue
Team size7 engineers
Engineers available for fix3
Release window2 weeks
Customers affected12 enterprise accounts
Renewal risk2 accounts
Demo deadline10 days
Quality barRegression testing + rollback plan required

Question

Tell me about a time you had to make a decision that balanced customer impact, team capacity, and business risk.