Sometimes the asking is not the hard part, communication channels might be open, but decision making is always put on the business perspective which might be a

Sometimes the asking is not the hard part, communication channels might be open, but decision making is always put on the business perspective which might be a little shortsighted on some regards. Case in point, years ago we used CVS for version control. I had a strong feeling that if I asked to research how could we make the switch to git, it would be allowed but relegated to the back of the backlog, which usually means never to be done. So I did it without asking permission in between tasks, and when I proposed we switch to git I already presented our many dozens of repositories in a git server with the full history preserved. I didn't even need to ask forgiveness.