[Core] If you inherit a project with messy documentation and unclear decisions, where do you start?

Instruction: Answer as a BA taking over a live project where prior documentation is inconsistent, outdated, or incomplete.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can restore clarity on a project that already has analysis debt.

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I would start by figuring out what decisions are still driving the project, not by trying to clean every document at once. On inherited projects, the biggest risk is treating documentation cleanup like the goal instead of understanding what is still unresolved, what assumptions the team is working from, and where confusion could create delivery issues.

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