Scenario: CTO vs CPO Resource Allocation (12 Weeks / 1 Quarter)

Your Perspective (Engineer/CTO)

Confidential

Goal: Secure weeks within the upcoming quarter to refactor the legacy codebase. You know that spending time now will yield massive productivity multipliers, but the CPO wants to push new features directly to customers.

The graph above is your internal knowledge. It correctly plots non-linear productivity multiplier increases per week dedicated to Refactoring. Try to negotiate an optimal outcome without revealing your exact numbers.

Negotiation Tip: Focus on interests, not positions. Look for underlying needs behind what the CPO demands to find creative solutions.
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Alex (CPO)

Chief Product Officer

Hey there. I understand you wanted to discuss the roadmap for Q3. We are under immense pressure to ship the new analytics dashboard and the enterprise SSO feature to our existing customers. Any delay will probably cost us renewals. Can we commit to rolling these out by the end of the semester?