[bankcust08385]

Tragedy of the Commons often happens where there are too many developers and unclear functional or concerns ownership. Each concern needs a home, a checklist, a runbook, documentation, a support escalation path, and responsible tech or business owners.

[toyg]

You are redefining "tragedy of the commons" there... TOTC is about overusing shared resources (e.g. too many people helping themselves to a shared plate of food), not about confusing who should do what.

[bankcust08385]

Responsibility is the "resource" that becomes diminished. What would you rather call it then? The bystander effect at organizational scale?

[astura]

You should actually read Garrett Hardin's influential essay you are referencing before referencing it again. It's freely available from his estate at https://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_tragedy_of...

Because it doesn't say what you seem to think it does.