How would you run go/no-go reviews for a risky multi-team launch?

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 structure go/no-go reviews around explicit launch criteria defined before the release is emotionally committed. Every team should know the readiness checks, open risks, fallback plan, owner, and what threshold turns a concern into a stop signal. If those rules only appear in the final meeting, the review becomes political.

The review itself should separate three things: what is confirmed ready, what is at-risk but acceptable...

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