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Balancing Innovation and Legacy Systems

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You are advising an engineering organization that owns both new product development and a large installed base of legacy systems. Leadership wants faster innovation, but outages, technical debt, and customer commitments make it hard to move quickly.

How do you balance innovation with the need to maintain legacy systems?