The solution, obviously, is for everyone to be a stakeholder and everyone to get a formal veto on the matter. By all stakeholders I mean: * The department n

The solution, obviously, is for everyone to be a stakeholder and everyone to get a formal veto on the matter. By all stakeholders I mean: * The department needing the software. * The department integrating the software (usually IT). * The department(s) consuming the data. * Any other departments that interact with the above dataflow (IE does it contradict things they are/plan to do?). * Whoever signs off on the check. The formal veto would include written problems with the proposal "this is not a good idea as proposed because Z" and/or "for this to work we need X as a requirement, but it isn't in the proposed spec".