[Execution] How do you know whether the project is truly on track or just well-reported?

Instruction: Explain how you tell the difference between a healthy project and a project that is mainly producing clean status language.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can look past polished reporting and judge actual delivery health.

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I usually test that by looking at what the reporting is not saying. A project that is just well-reported often sounds clean at the summary level, but when you look underneath it, the assumptions are soft, the risks are under-described, the dependencies are being treated too casually, or the team is not actually confident about...

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