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pipeline ownership

/ˈpaɪp.laɪn ˈəʊ.nər.ʃɪp/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A field in the catalog set to the name of someone who left in March.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. Named accountability for a pipeline's correctness, uptime, and downstream contracts, including who responds when it fails.

Promoted

See also

brittle jobA job documented entirely in the muscle memory of the one person who knows which step to re-run first.
data freshness slaA promise about how recent the data is, signed by no one and measured by whoever is annoyed first.
it runs on dave's laptopThe architecture diagram for a critical daily process, redrawn every time Dave takes a vacation.
on-call rotationThe one place the org reliably assigns pipeline ownership: at 3 a.m., to whoever is holding the pager.