Governance: Great intentions, bad outcomes

How well-meant policies create friction, slow teams down, and damage trust when empathy is missing.

Governance is key to engineering. It automates checks, removes human error, and ships faster with more consistency and less debate. In theory, security requirements are built into pipelines, compliance rules serve as guardrails, and engineers receive instant feedback instead of waiting for reviews.

Platform and SRE teams love the clarity. Leadership love…