Sample Answer
In my last role, I owned the weekly status reporting for a cross‑functional initiative migrating 120+ clients to a new platform. One week, I reported that we were at 68% completion, and the program director pushed back, insisting we were over 80% based on what she’d heard from workstream leads. Instead of debating in the meeting, I walked her through how I was calculating progress: client-level milestones in our tracker, not just technical readiness. Afterward, I validated my numbers by re-pulling the raw data, spot-checking 15 randomly selected clients, and confirming with two workstream leads. The 68% held up. At the next check-in, I shared a one-page breakdown comparing “technical done” vs “client fully migrated.” That reframed the conversation. She accepted the numbers and asked me to adopt that dual-view reporting going forward.
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