Department directors want the city portfolio to micromanage every feature on permits, parks, and clinic apps. What lightweight alternative should the Product Owner use?
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Short Explanation
Guardrails on a bridge tell you where the lanes are; they do not steer every car. Keep, improve, and innovate percentages keep a city portfolio from starving maintenance or never trying anything new. Directors do not need to vote on every permit-form field.
Full Explanation
Lightweight allocation guardrails — for example keep, improve, innovate — set strategic capacity mix without turning the portfolio into a feature committee. Director voting, equal feature counts, and annual work-breakdowns micromanage output and destroy Product Owner ordering. Guardrails plus per-product Product Backlogs preserve both strategy and empiricism.