A Useful New Practice
The workaround may have revealed a simpler way worth considering.
Conditions for RevisionRisk Reduced Risk Shifted
Synthetic · Simulation/As of
After Its Reason Expires, How Is an Exception Closed?
A temporary workaround lets a shared team bypass a missing handover. The normal handover later returns, but the workaround remains in use.
- Who Asks
- The team restoring the handover
- Who Is Affected
- People relying on handover information
- Who Can Revise
- The exception's approving role
Traces in This ScenarioInvented, not observed
The exception records the missing handover as its reason.
The handover is available again, but the exception has no closing owner.
The Assumption
An exception described as temporary is assumed to end on its own.
Where the Readings Split
Keep the difference visibleAn Unreviewed Rule
A temporary bypass may become the rule without anyone examining what it leaves out.
Follow the Risk
The team avoided stopping while a handover was unavailable.
Later users may rely on a bypass whose original reason no longer applies.