You can't build something in a vacuum when there's other people with power in the organization. You need to treat the system as a whole including the politics i

You can't build something in a vacuum when there's other people with power in the organization. You need to treat the system as a whole including the politics involved. Sometimes that mean a less optimal solution to gain some influence with key stakeholders. This is one reason technologists can make bad managers. They don't think about the politics or don't want to play it.