Generally speaking, most people rely on $someone_else to track that, with measurements of divergence taking place either infrequently enough to keep things on course, or frequently enough to get dulled into unimportant routine, so everyone goes through the motions, but nobody feels comfortable upsetting the status quo.
Sounds basically like a project spec or RFC-style document/Slackbot spam. I have a feeling a lot of project management apps probably started from these kinds of thoughts. Just add featuritis. :)