Digital Deadline Dilemma

As CTO of Nexus Financial, you're caught between the Board's aggressive modernization demands and your lead engineer's dire warnings. The aging COBOL mainframe handles $2.3B in daily transactions, but the Board wants cloud migration in 30 days. Your engineer claims this timeline could collapse the entire system.

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Difficulty

B1-B2

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Scenario Overview

Your Role

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Conversation Partner

Marcus Sterling, Board Chairman

Setting

Executive boardroom, 47th floor. Floor-to-ceiling windows show a stormy skyline. Blue light from multiple displays casts harsh shadows.

Location

Nexus Financial Global HQ, Manhattan

Learning Objectives

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Navigate the conversation without committing to an impossible deadline

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Document and communicate the genuine technical risks

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Secure either more time or additional resources for the migration

About This Scenario

How It Starts

“The Board's patience has expired, and frankly, so has mine. Your predecessor assured us this infrastructure upgrade would be complete by now. Thirty days. Not a day more. Are we clear?”

This is how Marcus Sterling, Board Chairman's greeting will start.

Practice Details

Scenario ID

#326

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🎯Real-world conversation practice
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