[Execution] How do you decide what needs escalation versus what the team should work through on its own?

Instruction: Explain how you decide when a project issue should be escalated and when it should stay at the working level.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can use escalation thoughtfully instead of either avoiding it or overusing it.

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I usually escalate when the team cannot resolve the issue with the authority or information it already has. That might be a priority conflict, a resource constraint, a dependency problem, or a decision that only a sponsor or senior stakeholder can really make.

I would also follow the project's agreed escalation thresholds and any mandatory incident or reporting process...

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