War-game a badge access policy by proving each door class has a named owner, a measured exception window, and a reverse path before the calendar starts governing every access claim.
Badge access policies fail when "temporary access" means a status without a decision artifact, when teams dual-count a draft exception as both approved and live, and when high-risk floor paths still pin to one thin roster because the map is incomplete. The review needs one written inventory of door classes, one owner who can deny a risky shortcut, and a documented consequence when a failed exception ages past the deadline.
Freeze the access scenario
State the policy scope, the effective date, which floors are protected, how exceptions work, and what happens to badges already in flight. Name the teams that feel it first and the landlord or safety commitments that depend on controlled access. If the memo mixes a badge policy with an evacuation rewrite and a visitor log cut, split them. A war game needs one move under fire at a time.
Write the decision you will make if the war game finds nothing new. Also write the reverse criteria: the access miss, coverage gap, or safety deadline that would force a policy release within a stated window.
Seats that matter
- Facilities ops. Badge timing, door math, and what the access forecast hides if exceptions soften after the policy.
- Security. Privilege creep, contractor load, and the first ninety days of thinner after-hours coverage.
- Workplace and legal. Which lease or safety promises break in process, audit risk, and relationship damage with landlords.
- IT identity. Provisioning lag, dual-counted deprovisions, and the message that would leave orphan badges open past lock.
- Skeptic. The claim that looks strongest and is least sourced.
Attach the same source pack to every seat: open badges, exceptions in flight, protected floors, coverage commitments, and the exception policy you actually intend to use. Secret data for one seat creates fake agreement.
Loop the review
Feed Pingpong the policy memo, the badge exhibits, and the seating briefs. First pass steelmans the policy. Later passes attack from facilities, security, workplace, and identity seats. Final pass turns surviving objections into phased door rules, mitigations, or a changed recommendation. Agreement across passes is not proof. Keep the objections that still have evidence gaps.
Pair with the facilities ops lead seat, an evacuation drill script stress test, a visitor log rewrite review, and the security ops lead seat. More operating decisions live in the war-game decisions hub.
Ship the policy only when approved and blocked labels can be reproduced from stored badge exports without a verbal override.