[Stakeholders] Two stakeholders want different outcomes and both say their requirement is the priority. How do you handle it?

Instruction: Explain how you would handle competing stakeholder priorities when both sides believe their need should win.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can manage stakeholder conflict without becoming political or passive.

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I would make the conflict explicit and move the conversation away from personal preference as quickly as possible. When two stakeholders both say their requirement is the priority, I want to understand the business reason behind each request, the impact of delaying either one, the dependencies involved, and who is actually accountable for the decision if a tradeoff has to be made....

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