Synthetic · Simulation/As of
Does Shared Responsibility Include the Power to Act?
Separate teams approve different parts of a shared process. Each team treats the final result as jointly owned.
- Who Asks
- A person affected by the whole process
- Who Is Affected
- Process users
- Who Can Revise
- The teams named as joint owners
A team is less able to change its part without consultation.
Users must navigate ownership boundaries to obtain a correction.
Traces in This ScenarioInvented, not observed
Every part has an approving role.
A request to revise the whole process is passed between teams.
The Assumption
Shared approval is assumed to create shared power to correct the whole.
The Design Must Stay Revisable
Review ownership when every team agrees a problem exists but none can change it.
Redesign the Roles