The quiet ones
The quiet ones
Of the nine removals somebody argued about, none later surfaced as a problem. Of the seventeen nobody remarked on, four did. This is the finding, and it is not a coincidence.
The quarterly reconciliation of the project ledger
week 3 · surfaced after 31 weeks
Shadowing new starters through their first week
week 6 · surfaced after 47 weeks
Reading supplier contracts before renewal
week 2 · surfaced after 22 weeks
Logging why a job was turned down
week 9 · surfaced after 64 weeks
Surfaced 4
Four removals were written down with the week each of them stopped. Every one of them produced an event inside the 78 weeks watched. Of these, four surfaced as a problem. The four removals nobody said a word about, all of which later surfaced as problems.
What the noise at the time predicts
Of the nine removals somebody argued about, none later surfaced as a problem. Of the seventeen nobody remarked on, four did.
An objection is an appointment
The value of an objection is not that it is right. On this record objections were wrong two thirds of the time and were still the most useful thing in the room.
The silence that looks like consent
Nobody said anything about seventeen of the thirty-eight removals. Four different things were going on in that silence and only one of them was agreement.
Nothing happened is not a result
An entry with no event looks like evidence of a successful removal. It is the absence of evidence, and four of them were about to become expensive.
The four quiet ones
The four removals nobody said a word about, all of which later surfaced as problems — what each one was, why nobody spoke, and what would have been said if.
Why loud objections point the wrong way
The removals that generated the most argument were, without exception, cheap to get wrong.
The removals that belonged to nobody
Six procedures on this record had no owner. Every one passed without comment, and they connect the quiet removals to the expensive ones.
What this does not license
The finding on this site is easy to over-read in four specific directions, three of which would make a transition worse.