Handle pressure to release while an error-budget policy blocks feature changes.

Instruction: Give a constructive response that applies the supplied policy and preserves a concrete next step.

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Fictional team policy: when the rolling error budget is exhausted, ordinary feature releases pause; verified incident fixes and urgent security patches may use an exception approved by the service owner and product owner. A sales leader asks you to release a new dashboard today for a customer meeting. No contractual deadline or exception approval is supplied.

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I would explain that the current policy pauses this ordinary feature release because the budget is exhausted, and that I cannot label a dashboard feature an incident fix...

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