Design a portfolio system that balances platform investment and feature delivery.

Instruction: Design a scalable operating model. Be explicit about governance, tradeoffs, escalation paths, and how the system stays useful over time.

Context: Tests whether the candidate can design a scalable PM operating system that remains useful under complexity, politics, and growth.

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I would balance platform and feature work through one portfolio system, not two separate backlogs where platform work is always negotiated later. Part of capacity should be explicitly reserved for reliability, technical debt, or enabling investments, and part should be reserved for user-facing roadmap work...

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