IT
Business owner
The accountable program area for a system's purpose, requirements and use.
Plain English
The program area that the system exists to serve, and that decides what it needs to do.
If you’re new here
IT builds and runs it; the business owner decides what it is for. When those two disagree the project stops until they do not.
What they probably mean
“Whoever has to answer for the program, not the people who keep the servers up.”
Interpretation offered as humour, not authoritative guidance.
Bureaucracy level
Easy · 2/5
How much government-speak this phrase carries. Playful indicator, not a judgement of anyone using it.
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