Governance Without Theater — Signals That Resist Gaming

Governance slides often celebrate green dashboards while incidents tell another story. We explore pairing SLIs with sampling strategies that increase cost when teams cheat rather than when they ship.

Next we examine rotation-friendly CAB agendas — short enough for practitioners to attend, explicit enough for auditors to trace. Templates matter less than who feels safe dissenting.

We finish with a candid limitation: governance artifacts cannot manufacture trust — they coordinate existing trust. We note what we refuse to promise when incentives stay misaligned.