How project-based funding shapes architecture and quietly institutionalizes duplication.
Two engineering teams can successfully deliver the same capability and leave the enterprise worse off.
Neither failed. Each delivered against its approved scope, budget, and requirements.
The duplication was created upstream, where investments were evaluated independently and reuse had no funding mandate.
Architecture reflects the boundaries of investment.
https://primamachina.substack.com/p/build-capabilities-not-projects