Taking things out
How to take something out
Write the list, mark the quiet ones, and set the review window to the thing rather than to the quarter. Three habits, none of which is an argument for a shorter week.
The standing item for any other business
week 8 · still not missed
A written agenda for every one-to-one
week 6 · still not missed
The suggestion box
week 6 · still not missed
Weekly timesheets broken down by task
week 3 · still not missed
Not missed 4
Four removals were written down with the week each of them stopped. Four of them have not been asked for in the 78 weeks since. Four of the fourteen nobody has asked for, seventy-eight weeks on.
Write the list
Five columns, filled in during the transition, costing about an hour. Everything on this site exists because one person did this and almost nobody does.
Mark the quiet ones
Two questions, five seconds and an hour respectively, that between them address all four of the unremarked problems on this record.
Size the review window to the thing
A six-month review of a change whose slowest consequence takes fourteen months is not a short review.
The one-page version
Everything on this site, compressed to what somebody at week two of their own transition could act on in an afternoon.
What to do when something surfaces late
A removal that fails at week forty-seven arrives under pressure, and the thing that goes back in is usually the thing that was removed rather than the thing.
Putting it back, but not all of it
A procedure has dimensions nobody has examined. The removal is the only event that forces the examination, and the restoration is where it happens.
What to tell people before you start
Four things said at the beginning that make the record possible, none of which is a promise about whether the shorter week will work.
What an honest report of a trial says
A six-month report can be true in every sentence and still tell its readers that a transition with three unresolved problems has worked.