Anti-patterns

Multiple writers to the same invariant domain — coordination masquerading as architecture

Pessimistic coordination instead of single-writer authority

Unanimous agreement as the gate before action — the cultural form of the locking organisation

Interpreted or probabilistic artifacts persisted and consumed as ground truth

Persistence verbs masquerading as business events — a ubiquitous naming tier collapse

Organisational norms that treat dissent as betrayal and revision as weakness — commitment immune from challenge

Documentation, pinning, and sharing postponed until after the claim ships — and often forever

Commits flow forward; correction, contest, and supersession have no designed return path — reversal is treated as illegitimate

Bind and execute without wiring feedback — the missing loop structure that defers revision until catastrophe forces it

Central function scales by reviewing each decision — a ticket queue disguised as platform ownership