Decision Rights Are Part of the Architecture
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"You own delivery."
Then the conditions arrive.
The incumbent vendor can veto the architecture. An internal stakeholder can change priorities without changing the deadline. A platform team controls a critical dependency but has made no commitment to the schedule. Two executives disagree about the outcome, and nobody has authority to resolve the conflict. The consultant is still accountable for whether the project ships.
That is not project ownership. It is responsibility detached from authority.