The four-day close nobody puts on a roadmap
Every month a person disappears into a workbook for most of a week. It never shows up as a project, so it never gets fixed.
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Field notes on reporting
Notes on messy spreadsheets, the reporting work nobody asked for, and what it takes to trust a number on a dashboard.
The weekly status workbook is more expensive than it looks
It takes forty minutes to update and gets read for ninety seconds. The problem is not the forty minutes.
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Reporting that survives the person who built it
The test of a reporting setup is not whether it works. It is whether it still works after the person who made it goes on holiday.
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