> You're right I didn't articulate when to handle an issue locally vs. pass it up.

I'm saying this is an everybody problem. Most of us just pass the buck by default. It can take quite a bit of cajoling to get error passing pushed back down to the layer that can best cope with it, once it has escaped up the stack. And when we split teams horizontally, instead of vertically, this happens practically all the time.

This is one of the primary reasons I push for feature teams instead of client/server teams. The distance between, "I think this is done" and "this is ready to go to production" is mercifully small, instead of unknowable.