You don’t skip the review you think is unnecessary. You skip the review you’re afraid might say no.
A new tool gets proposed. IT tests compatibility. Finance checks the price. Legal reads the contract. The process looks complete. What’s missing is the team the tool owner doesn’t want to invite.
I worked on one case: a third-party security product. IT approved it. Finance approved it. Legal approved it.
Information security sign-off was required. They were never invited.
When they finally saw it, live, in production, it had increased the attack surface.
Most process failures get classified as selective urgency. That framing is a mistake.
Selective urgency is not malicious intent. But it is not innocent either. The more accurate label is willful negligence: consciously disregarding the rules for reasons you could never defend out loud.
The step that disappears is never the one that feels safe to skip. It’s the one that might say stop.
Each team in the chain sees something the others can’t. Remove one and you inherit their blind spot.