FIELD NOTE #061 | Assurance Inflation: The Green Dashboard Problem

Podcast: Engineering the Intelligent Enterprise · PRASAD BHONDE

Opublikowano: 2026-10-13

The numbers passed validation. The quarterly report is spotless. Executive confidence is rising. So why is the underlying system losing reliability? --- In Field Note #061, we examine Assurance Inflation: the operational failure mode that occurs when trust in validated metrics expands into unwarranted confidence about conditions those metrics never measured. Without a single falsified number or missed target, high-performing engineering and enterprise teams regularly talk themselves into a false sense of security. We break d...