Tag: inherited systems

• Custody

  

  Photo by Ishan @seefromthesky on Unsplash There is a particular sentence that appears in incident reviews, architecture meetings, postmortems, and inherited projects with remarkable consistency. “That predates me.” And usually, it is true. The person saying it did not make the decision. They were not in the room when the architecture was chosen, the exception…

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  September 20, 2026

  Governance & Systems Design, Leadership & Teamwork

  Accountability, architecture, authorship, Change Management, custody, decision history, decision-making, governance, inherited systems, institutional memory, knowledge transfer, legacy systems, organizational design, ownership, risk management, stewardship, systems thinking, technical leadership