[Stakeholders] How do you handle a stakeholder who bypasses the project process and goes directly to the team?

Instruction: Explain how you would respond when a stakeholder starts sending requests or direction directly to the team outside the agreed path.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can protect project control without overreacting to informal end-runs.

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I would address it quickly, because if that pattern continues, the project loses one of the most important things it has: a shared way of making and communicating changes...

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