u/Complex_Computer2966

the kind that says "implement circuit breaker on payments service" or "set up automated runbook for stale leader election" and just sits in jira under "later"

mine is "add chaos testing to the deployment pipeline" from an incident in 2023 where a bad rollout took down half the platform for 40 min. everyone in the room nodded. ticket got created. it has priority "high" and has been moved across 4 different epics since every quarter someone brings it up. every quarter the answer is "we should do that this sprint".

nothing happens edit: bonus points if the engineer who wrote the action item has since left whats the action item your team has been carrying for years