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Defaults Do the Work: How Implicit Choices Become Policy

Defaults Do the Work: How Implicit Choices Become Policy

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 Organizations make thousands of quiet decisions every week: a config left as-is, a contract clause copied from a template, a deployment cadence nobody questioned. These implicit defaults end up governing behavior, locking in costs, and creating surprise constraints when business priorities change. In this episode Mirko Peters frames the problem from both sides: why business teams treat defaults as neutral conveniences and why IT inherits long-term operational burden. Using generalized consulting examples (no client names), he explains common patterns where defaults produce hidden coupling, governance gaps, and runaway support costs. Listeners get a practical, repeatable checklist to audit defaults, questions to surface when a choice becomes policy, and simple governance habits to prevent accidental lock-in. The episode is direct, actionable, and built for leaders and practitioners who want to reduce surprise costs without bureaucratic overhead.

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