Boundaries don't fail because someone breaks them
Boundaries hold until the exception becomes the easier path. Then the exception becomes the rule.
Boundaries don't fail because someone breaks them.
They fail because the architecture keeps rewarding exceptions.
Each exception relieves pressure in the moment.
So it happens again.
The extra client request. The urgent favour. The meeting that should have been declined. The decision that needed an edge and got absorbed instead.
At first it looks responsive.
Then it becomes normal.
The team adapts around what was meant to be contained.
The edge stops being an edge.
The question isn't whether boundaries still exist.
It's whether the organisation still knows where they are.