King of Swords
"The VP of Engineering's Decree"
Swords · Process & Decisions▲ Upright +2
The decision came from the top and for once it is the right one. The King of Swords is the engineering leader who looked at the DORA metrics, read the incident reports, and made the call that nobody else had the authority to make. No more microservices until the existing ones have SLOs. The freeze is effective immediately. This is what governance looks like when the person governing actually understands the system.
▽ Reversed -2
Authority without understanding. The King of Swords reversed is the executive who mandated a platform migration based on a conference talk, overriding the technical staff who spent six months evaluating options. The decree has been issued. The decree is wrong. Nobody will say so until the quarterly business review, and by then the migration will be half-finished and unfixable.