Beanclusterfsck?
Previous public sector role: engineers were taken aside early in job and it was explained very clearly that bad design, corner cutting or straightforward screw-ups could lead to loss of job and the possibility of personally facing civil or criminal charges (with no official support). Beancounters who force cuts? No sanctions at all. Middle or senior managers who back the bean counters? Safe as houses. Middle or senior managers who back the engineers? Non-existent, as 'the engineers are there to tell us how to do things, it's their fault if it goes wrong'.
DR for the individual bean counters and friends are well rehearsed, as others have said: sanctions against them seem to be totally absent - cuts can be made, "savings" made, yet when it goes wrong, those people are absent.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
