Im having a hard time to imagine this conversation. Infrastructure projects typically need a lot of buy-in from across teams (due to costs) and are geared to so

Im having a hard time to imagine this conversation. Infrastructure projects typically need a lot of buy-in from across teams (due to costs) and are geared to solve specific problems the business faces. This has been my experience in small/medium sized companies which had to juggle among fixing bugs, building features and building infrastructure to either scale up current features, or to enable us build previously-impossible features. But I agree with you that most businesses (I'v worked with) are in reactive mode, including infrastructure!