Have to agree that this seems like a re-discovery of an already solved problem. Sometimes called architecture review, before new initiatives kick off.
I worked at a big, regulated, company that had a very strict change control process. Too many RFC's for implementations a week out were met with a response like "what! why did you buy/build a system to do X? We already have three systems that do that!!", but it was too late by then to rethink x. The problem was it's difficult to deny a plane in the air permission to land - it's coming down eventually, like it or not. So we implemented an architecture review board that was "permission to take off", hopefully before sinking a lot of money and time into something, run the idea around past some connected folks. It was default approve - someone could raise an objection and ask for more information, but if there were collective shrugs, you were good to go.
I worked at a big, regulated, company that had a very strict change control process. Too many RFC's for implementations a week out were met with a response like "what! why did you buy/build a system to do X? We already have three systems that do that!!", but it was too late by then to rethink x. The problem was it's difficult to deny a plane in the air permission to land - it's coming down eventually, like it or not. So we implemented an architecture review board that was "permission to take off", hopefully before sinking a lot of money and time into something, run the idea around past some connected folks. It was default approve - someone could raise an objection and ask for more information, but if there were collective shrugs, you were good to go.