Most of the issue exemplified in the article arise due to a lack of domain expertise, not ego. Parochialism, maybe, as it relates to lack of expertise. We fear

Most of the issue exemplified in the article arise due to a lack of domain expertise, not ego. Parochialism, maybe, as it relates to lack of expertise. We fear what we do not understand, which translates into domain ownership and controls over guardrails. The productivity of every single team that I've been apart of, that shipped fast, was enabled through permission, by highly experienced domain experts who knew how to build guardrails instead of controls. Canary releases, monitoring and rollbacks, not release managers. Automated testing, not codeowners. Controls prohibit actors from doing certain things. Outside of regulated environments, they should only exist at the perimeter of your business, interfering in the nefarious activities of malicious external actors. Guardrails on the other hand, guide actors in the right direction. Well installed guardrails can see your legal team pushing changes to your API schemas. Those guardrails however take real expertise to install.