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Reconcile the record · instrument the definitions · ship the smallest thing that runs · close the loop.
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Where a customer can't be named, the component and scale are characterized instead.
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EXPLORE INTERNSHIPS →The baseline you did not document is not a baseline
Improvement claimed against a retrospective baseline will not survive first contact with an auditor.
Process improvement work has a predictable failure: the baseline is reconstructed after the change, from whatever data happens to have been retained, using a definition shaped by the result.
Nobody does this dishonestly. It happens because the measurement question is deferred during the interesting part of the work and becomes urgent only when someone asks for the return.
The fix costs days, not months. Before changing anything, write down what will be measured, how, and against what definition, and get the people who will later evaluate the result to agree to it in advance.
This also disciplines the design. A change that cannot be expressed as a measurable difference against an agreed baseline is usually a change without a clear theory behind it.
The instrumentation should outlive the engagement. A program that can only demonstrate improvement while consultants are present has not improved.
If this describes a problem your program is carrying, the conversation starts with the question two systems answer differently.
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