[Behavioral] Tell me about a time a project passed status checks but was still in trouble.

Instruction: Answer this as a story where the formal status looked acceptable but the actual delivery picture was weaker.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can detect and act on weak project health hidden behind positive reporting.

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I had a project where the formal status looked healthy because the task completion picture was still mostly green. But when I looked underneath it, the readiness picture was getting weaker. A few downstream dependencies were still soft, and the project was counting activity as proof of progress when the next real gate wasn't actually secure.

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