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Prioritize Multiple Urgent Issues

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You are managing delivery for a live network software program when several urgent issues hit at once. A customer-reported defect is affecting a subset of users, a critical integration dependency is slipping, and leadership is asking for a status update on a committed release. You need to decide what gets attention first without losing control of delivery.

Question

How do you prioritize tasks when faced with multiple urgent issues?