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Issue 02

Evidence, ownership, and delivery truthfulness

08 June 2026 30 entries

Issue 02 expands the reference around evaluation discipline, ownership boundaries, delivery commitments, and the difference between activity and evidence.

FM

Failure Modes

6 new

New 06

  1. FM 32 Weak Evaluation Discipline
  2. FM 33 Weak Governance Structures
  3. FM 34 Weak Operational Discipline
  4. FM 35 Priority Inflation
  5. FM 36 Intake Overload
  6. FM 37 Decision Diffusion

TD

Tech Decisions

8 new

New 08

  1. TD 39 Date-Driven vs Scope-Driven Delivery
  2. TD 40 Online vs Batch Evaluation
  3. TD 41 Service Ownership Model
  4. TD 42 Shared Platform vs Team-Owned Components
  5. TD 43 Team Topologies
  6. TD 44 Where to Allow AI-Assisted Development
  7. TD 45 OKRs vs KPIs
  8. TD 46 Team Health vs Output Metrics

RF

Red Flags

8 new

New 08

  1. RF 43 Nobody can say what is fixed vs flexible
  2. RF 44 Each team is green but delivery is late
  3. RF 45 No one owns the end-to-end flow
  4. RF 46 Nobody can name who owns a key decision
  5. RF 47 No task-level evals exist before launch
  6. RF 48 Eval scores improve while user satisfaction is flat or declining
  7. RF 49 No one can name the owner of a live service
  8. RF 50 Incidents bounce without resolution

EP

Engineering Playbook

8 new

New 08

  1. EP 09 Build a task-grounded evaluation harness
  2. EP 10 Define source trust model
  3. EP 11 Monitor model behavior in production
  4. EP 28 Frame scope, time, and quality explicitly
  5. EP 29 Measure durable outcomes, not artifact volume
  6. EP 30 Run cross-team dependency mapping
  7. EP 39 Re-establish service ownership
  8. EP 48 Align authority with accountability