Mutual Oversight
The arrangement can keep a local decision from ignoring other teams.
Where Risk SitsRisk Reduced Risk Shifted
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
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.
Where the Readings Split
Keep the difference visibleA Gap Between Owners
No team may have permission to change the result that users experience.
Follow the Risk
A team is less able to change its part without consultation.
Users must navigate ownership boundaries to obtain a correction.