golden path

Adoption is a product problem: templates with tested safe defaults, guardrails that start in audit mode, and metrics on paved-road share. Remove reasons to leave the road rather than writing memos.

A catalogue nobody updates is worse than no catalogue, because people trust it once and get burned. Derive everything you can from systems that are already true, and make the rest a gate rather than a request.

A platform question that is really a product question. The design is the easy half; the answer that scores explains how you would know developers chose it rather than were forced onto it.

Refuse every exception and teams leave the platform without telling you. Grant them freely and you are patching nine stacks. The detail that decides it is whether the exception has an expiry date.