[nanis]

If you are lucky enough to work with people who are willing to explain this and take the information in objectively, that's great. Sometimes, I have been that lucky person.

On the other hand, in not a trivial number of cases, you'll be working with people who get all the upside when things go right and the blame the tech side successfully when they don't. Their interests do not align with the interests of the business either but since the business side consists of their bros, they all instinctively align on that.

So, you keep talking about "risk", that gets portrayed to upstairs as "I am doing my best, but so and so here is throwing technical minutiae at me which is slowing us down."

They are used to being graded on the curve where your position gets better if everyone else does worse and taking advantage of that system.

Among the many reasons I never graded on a curve, but you can't do that with upper management in business.

I say this as a person who believes business cost/benefit calculations trump everything else. However, decisions must be made by people who understand the tradeoffs and are accountable.