Section 3: Leadership Decision Matrix Metrics

Tension	Alignment Metric	Owner	Cadence	Target
Speed vs. Quality	% shipped as experiments or MVPs vs. comprehensive	Product Lead	Monthly	≥ 60% experiments
Centralization vs. Standardization	% platform capabilities used by ≥2 teams	Platform Lead	Quarterly	≥ 80% multi-team
Automation vs. Human Judgment	Fully autonomous high-stakes decisions vs. augmented	Ethics / Product	Quarterly	0 fully autonomous high-stakes
Autonomy vs. System Integrity	Incidents from team changes violating cross-system contracts	SRE	Weekly	0
Revenue vs. Ethics	% revenue features passing pre-build ethics review	Ethics Lead	Quarterly	100%
Specialists vs. Generalists	% product team members with cross-training in ≥2 disciplines	People Team	Quarterly	≥ 60%
Punish Failure vs. Reward Success	% postmortems resulting in system changes vs. personnel actions	Engineering Culture	Quarterly	≥ 90% system changes
Legacy vs. New	% engineering capacity on maintenance vs. innovation	Engineering Leadership	Quarterly	Maintenance ≤ 30%