Synthetic · Simulation/As of
Can a Trial Be Reversed for Everyone It Touches?
A team trials a shared timetable. The timetable can be restored, but users have already rearranged other commitments around it.
- Who Asks
- Timetable users
- Who Is Affected
- People who rearranged commitments
- Who Can Revise
- The trial coordinator
The team can restore the previous scheduling process.
Users carry the consequences of commitments made during the trial.
Traces in This ScenarioInvented, not observed
The plan includes a way to restore the earlier timetable.
The plan does not describe how users' changed commitments would be handled.
The Assumption
Restoring the timetable is assumed to restore the prior situation.
The Design Must Stay Revisable
Revisit the trial when a user cannot return to the earlier arrangement.
Redesign the Roles