governance on Paul Lewishttps://www.pjlewis.com/tags/governance/Recent content in governance on Paul LewisHugo -- gohugo.ioen-gb<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0</a>Thu, 14 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000Why Technology Retirements Are a Governance Problem, Not a Technical Onehttps://www.pjlewis.com/posts/why-technology-retirements-are-a-governance-problem/Thu, 14 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000https://www.pjlewis.com/posts/why-technology-retirements-are-a-governance-problem/<p>Most organisations treat technology retirements as change events. A vendor announces that a service, API version, or platform SKU is reaching end-of-life. Someone raises a ticket. An engineer does some work. The retirement date passes without incident, and everyone moves on.</p> <p>That version of events does happen. But it is not the version I see most often.</p>