Instruction: Answer this as a PM dealing with recurring issues that keep returning because the project has only treated the surface problem.
Context: Assesses whether the candidate can move beyond repeated symptom management and address the actual cause.
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If the same issue keeps coming back, I treat that as a sign the project is managing symptoms instead of solving the real problem. So I stop looking at the issue only as the latest incident and start asking what pattern it belongs to. Is the root cause unclear ownership, weak decision-making, bad inputs, unrealistic...
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