Give an example of a time when you encountered an obstacle while working on a project that could have resulted in not reaching the deadline.
What phase of the project life cycle should you have focused on more to have prevented this issue?
How did you overcome this obstacle and what did you do to keep your project on track?

During my Undergrad at Rutgers I ran into a problem when dealing with my senior design project. The specificity and sensitivity percentages we were receiving from our ultrasound scans in our validation and verification phase was not reaching usable numbers and the project had stopped because we could not advance to the next phase. In addition, the ultrasound device we were using were outdated and were not working or providing us with the results we desired. For this we should have focused on the Planning phase more. We should have looked to make sure all of our equipment is up to date and will provide us with the results we wanted. We also should have spent more time on the risk analysis phase to see what we should have done if we ran into a problem like this. We overcame the obstacle by working on other side tasks and ordering new equipment so that we can get the results we wanted from our scans and then proceed to the next step.