Orphan jobs that invent review-week surprises
A forgotten nightly sync can look like a policy breach when you only read the exception report.
On data automation estates, a job that lost its owner can keep rewriting fields long after the ticket closed. The review shows a cliff; the product never asked for that rewrite.
Before rewriting the policy, walk the path while watching live run history and change tickets. Note jobs with no named owner versus jobs with stale contacts. Check whether staging shares production credentials.
Policy-to-Pipeline Mapping stays narrow on purpose: one policy set, deep reconciliation, a checklist you can rerun after every release so the surprise does not return unnoticed.