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> Every time you add a gate to a task (this person must accept this before it progresses … This seems to be the standard failure mode. When a ticket is wrong,

• Cogito 8y ago
  The solution of course it to just allow people to do what they want. Every now and then it’s useful to everyone to stop some things from happening - it’s easier to have the gate than to not. The fact that that exemption exists is what drives the pain most people have with systems like this. My trick was to say “while we’re building this let’s just leave it as open as possible, we can lock it down once we’re sure the process works how we need it” - and then never lock it down (or just lock down the bits that people use to shoot themselves in the foot).