Let me rephrase. Given a Tech document that addresses the risk of change, the rollback plan, the security implications etc, and a suite of metrics demonstratin

Let me rephrase. Given a Tech document that addresses the risk of change, the rollback plan, the security implications etc, and a suite of metrics demonstrating load and failure conditions with appropriate alerting. And of course the PR with appropriate test suite, shown to work in a test environment in concert with the rest of the ecosystem, that stuff is just table sakes. convince a director to approve the change. Ideally a director that doesn't report to the same vp as your org.