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Managing Competing Priorities

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How do you manage competing priorities and tight deadlines across multiple concurrent projects?

Describe the practical framework you use to assess urgency, business impact, dependencies, team capacity, and delivery risk. Explain how you communicate trade-offs, reset expectations, and monitor progress when priorities change.