[Planning] How do you use assumptions in project planning?

Instruction: Explain how you treat assumptions in a project plan and how you stop them from becoming hidden risk.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can make assumptions visible and usable instead of letting them quietly drive the plan.

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I treat assumptions as active planning inputs, not background noise. If an important date, dependency, resource, or scope choice depends on an assumption, I want that visible. Otherwise the project starts behaving as if the assumption is already true, and that is how teams get surprised later.

So I usually...

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