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Your internal production systems are not toys. Using them as such and claiming it is so you can be "creative" is a clear indicator you and your organization are immature as an IT organization.

Internal production systems are critical for your daily operation, otherwise you would not use them. Treating those systems as toys by not having proper governance for access, having little to no governance over integrations and allowing configurations without any strategy or governance is a disaster waiting to happen.

While innovation is important, it should not come at the expense of security and legal compliance. With regulations like GDPR you must have full control over your data and if you want any form of security you must control access and integrations.

In mature organizations you solve this by having separate systems where people can play around and be creative, and then they control the change process before any value found during these play sessions are implemented in production systems.

Immature organizations not only have a problem with security and legal compliance, the people that use these tools as toys also tend to behave like children when their toys are taken away from them.

This makes transitioning from an immature organization to a mature one an unpleasant event, and you need to pick your "parenting" style when doing it depending on how much conflict your organization can manage...

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