Reference Architecture / Team Autonomy
Kind: tension
Record: tension:reference-architecture-team-autonomy
Canonical: Schema
"reference-architecture" (evolution-principles layer) is traded against "Team Autonomy" (human-factors layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Team Autonomy" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after First-Principles Design / Reuse of Established Patterns and before Pattern Consistency / Local Optimization.