[Core] If a hiring manager asked how you keep a project honest, what would you say?

Instruction: Answer this as a concise but thoughtful explanation of how you stop a project from drifting into false confidence.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can articulate one of the hardest parts of PM work: keeping status aligned with reality.

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I would say I keep a project honest by making sure the reporting, the plan, and the working reality stay connected. A lot of projects look healthy longer than they actually are because the status language stays optimistic while the underlying issues are building quietly.

What I try to do is surface assumptions early,...

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