Mobile App Design Communication & Stakeholder Relations 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A PM insists on adding five new features one week before launch. What is the best way to handle this request?
- Agree immediately to keep the PM happy
- Evaluate impact on timeline, document trade-offs, and present options (Correct answer)
- Refuse all changes and escalate to leadership
- Add the features silently without telling the team
Correct answer: Evaluate impact on timeline, document trade-offs, and present options
Assessing impact and presenting documented trade-offs keeps stakeholders informed and decisions data-driven.
Question 2: Which artifact best communicates the current sprint's priorities to non-technical stakeholders?
- Git commit log
- Sprint backlog with user-friendly summaries (Correct answer)
- Server error logs
- API documentation
Correct answer: Sprint backlog with user-friendly summaries
A sprint backlog written in plain language helps non-technical stakeholders understand what the team is delivering.
Question 3: A client requests a video call to review a prototype but your team is fully remote across three time zones. What should you do first?
- Tell the client a call is impossible
- Send a recorded walkthrough video instead without asking
- Find a time that overlaps for most participants and offer async alternatives (Correct answer)
- Delay the review until everyone is in the same city
Correct answer: Find a time that overlaps for most participants and offer async alternatives
Finding overlap time while offering async options respects everyone's schedule and keeps the project moving.
Question 4: What does RACI stand for in stakeholder communication planning?
- Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed (Correct answer)
- Review, Approve, Create, Implement
- Report, Assign, Communicate, Iterate
- Responsible, Assigned, Completed, Inspected
Correct answer: Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed
RACI defines who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed for each task or decision.
Question 5: A designer disagrees with a developer's implementation of a UI component. How should the design lead resolve this?
- Let the developer decide since they built it
- Schedule a joint review using the design spec as the source of truth (Correct answer)
- Escalate immediately to the CEO
- Remove the component from the app
Correct answer: Schedule a joint review using the design spec as the source of truth
Reviewing the original design spec together provides an objective basis for resolving the disagreement.
Question 6: Which communication method is most appropriate for sharing a critical bug discovered in production?
- Weekly status email
- Slack message in the general channel three days later
- Immediate alert via agreed incident-response channel (Correct answer)
- Verbal mention in the next sprint planning
Correct answer: Immediate alert via agreed incident-response channel
Critical production issues require immediate notification through the established incident-response channel.
Question 7: When should a mobile app design team hold a kickoff meeting with stakeholders?
- After the first version ships
- At the very beginning of the project before design starts (Correct answer)
- Only when problems arise
- After user research is complete
Correct answer: At the very beginning of the project before design starts
A kickoff meeting aligns all stakeholders on goals, scope, and expectations before work begins.
Mobile App Design Communication & Stakeholder Relations 2
A PM insists on adding five new features one week before launch.
What is the best way to handle this request?