Case Study

Decide how a team should allocate engineers given its available staffing and identified error categories.

Case context: An engineering team performing error analysis discovers two significant error categories: Great Cats and Blurry images. The team lead is deciding how to allocate the team's engineers to address these issues.

Question: Based on the source guidance, what should the team lead do if the team has enough people, and what should be considered if the team does not have enough people?

Sample answer: If the team has enough people, the team lead can assign some engineers to work on the Great Cats error category while others work on the Blurry images error category at the same time, allowing progress on both fronts in parallel. If the team does not have enough people to pursue both directions simultaneously, the team would need to prioritize which error category to address first rather than splitting into parallel groups, since the source specifies parallel work is contingent on having sufficient staffing.

Key points:

  • Sufficient staffing enables parallel assignment of engineers
  • Great Cats and Blurry images can be worked on simultaneously
  • Insufficient staffing implies work cannot be split in parallel
  • Team lead must assess staffing before deciding on approach

Rubric: Full credit for identifying that parallel assignment is appropriate only with sufficient staffing and explaining the implication when staffing is insufficient; partial credit for addressing only the parallel case.

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Updated 2026-07-10

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