How would you frame a major refactoring proposal using product strategy?
WHAT IT TESTS: reframing tech debt as delivery risk, not engineering chore. Tie refactoring to velocity loss and firefighting; shift accountability from dev-vs-ops fights to product ownership. RED FLAG: treating debt as hygiene needing blind business funding.
WHAT IT TESTS: translating technical debt into product and business risk via the product model. A GOOD ANSWER COVERS: quantifying drag on velocity and ops toil; showing how debt emerges between innovation budgets and constrained ops funding; proposing cross-functional product teams with clear ownership instead of dev-vs-ops politicking; and defining outcome milestones like reduced incidents or faster releases. RED FLAG: presenting refactoring as pure technical hygiene without tying it to delivery speed, customer outcomes, or accountability.
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