Instruction: Answer this as a real PM story where your original plan turned out to be flawed and you had to adjust.
Context: Assesses whether the candidate can admit planning error and show mature adaptation instead of defensiveness.
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I had a project where I built the early plan around the assumption that a few approvals could happen in parallel. Once the work got moving, it became clear that the approvals were more sequential and more sensitive than the early conversations had suggested. In other words, my timeline was cleaner than the real approval path.
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