How would you run cross-team planning when multiple teams depend on the same platform work?

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 design cross-team planning for shared dependencies around one visible dependency map and one integrated planning forum. If each product team plans independently and only discovers platform contention during execution, the real roadmap is fiction.

The planning model should require every dependent initiative to name the platform capability it needs, the timing assumption behind it, the fallback if that assumption fails, and the consequence...

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