[Behavioral] Tell me about a time a team resisted your project structure or process.

Instruction: Answer this as a real story where the team resisted your approach and you had to adapt without losing control.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can respond when people see PM process as friction instead of value.

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I had a project where part of the team felt the structure I introduced was too heavy for the pace they were trying to maintain. Instead of digging in and defending the process on principle, I stepped back and asked a harder question: which parts are actually protecting delivery and which parts just make the project...

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