“Our processes are bulletproof. Nothing gets into production that doesn’t go through the proper and complete approval process.” Famous last words uttered by far too many enterprise architects. Some of them actually believe it’s true – others think that by hoping it’s true, maybe, just maybe, they can make it true.
The reality, as any line-of-business developer can attest to, is much less clear cut. The challenge is that governance only gets harder the more an organization moves towards a service based architecture.
