Your question is Communicate a Critical Project Delay. Take a moment with it on the right.
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You are leading a high-visibility rollout and realize a key dependency will slip, putting the overall timeline at risk. A senior stakeholder has been counting on the original date and has already aligned other teams around it.
Describe a time you had to deliver difficult news to a key stakeholder about a project delay. How did you communicate the delay, manage the relationship, and handle the trade-offs that followed?