Field Note #071 | Protocol Drift: The Hidden Cost of Rules That Outlive Their Cause

Podcast: Engineering the Intelligent Enterprise · PRASAD BHONDE

Opublikowano: 2026-10-26

The policy was rigorous. The reasoning was forgotten. —— Walk into almost any engineering floor, software team, or enterprise department, and you will find people diligently performing steps that solve a problem from five years ago. In this episode of Field Notes, Prasad Bhonde investigates Protocol Drift: what happens when an organisation records the instruction for a rule, but forgets to record the condition that made the rule necessary. We explore why human systems are engineered to add procedures during mome...