Your question is Standardize Process or Preserve Flexibility. Take a moment with it on the right.
Talk me through your thinking if you like. When you're confident, submit your answer and I'll grade it like a real screen (7/10 or better passes).
You are leading an engineering organization that has grown through multiple teams and acquisitions. Some groups want a single standard process for planning, incident response, and releases so work is more predictable and easier to measure. Other teams argue their domains are different enough that forcing one process will slow delivery, reduce ownership, and create workarounds.
How do you decide when to standardize a process versus leaving room for local team flexibility?