You have one engineering week and two customer commitments: a local patch and a reusable fix that will arrive later. How would you allocate the work?

Instruction: One engineering week and two commitments are fictional capacity inputs. Use supported estimates and approved changes to scope or timing; do not invent spare staffing.

Context: Tests engineering-capacity allocation and delivery commitments, including the maintenance cost of a customer patch and the opportunity cost of reusable work.

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I'd verify both commitments and the consequences of delay before ranking the customers. A local patch might unblock a critical workflow today, while a reusable change could remove repeated work later. I'd ask who can approve a change to the agreed scope or date, and make the available engineering week explicit rather than promise both full deliveries...

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