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Describe a challenging project you worked on and what made it difficult.

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As a newly appointed manager for a microservices platform engineering team, I inherited a critical project facing significant delays. The customer-facing product release had already been postponed five times, with approximately 40% of features still pending testing and sign-off. My primary challenge was to ensure the product's successful launch by the looming deadline while simultaneously improving the team's overall software delivery performance.

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