But who is going to manage the year-and-a-half long, Excel-checklist-driven process of getting application changes reviewed and approved, and the infrastructure

But who is going to manage the year-and-a-half long, Excel-checklist-driven process of getting application changes reviewed and approved, and the infrastructure provisioned for each environment? And who is going to keep track of the permissions when forcing everyone to use middleware to access the databases and jump servers to access the machines? My god, won't anyone think of the middle managers!?