[Behavioral] Tell me about a time you had to say no to protect the project.

Instruction: Answer this as a story about disciplined pushback in service of the project, not just policy enforcement.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can push back responsibly when accepting a request would damage delivery.

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I had a situation where a stakeholder wanted to add a late change that sounded reasonable on its own, but the project was already tight on testing and timing. If we had taken it in without changing anything else, we would have increased risk in exactly the part of the project that could least absorb it.

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