A Reversible Tool
The team can undo the technical change without rebuilding the process.
Where Risk SitsRisk Reduced Risk Shifted
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
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.
Where the Readings Split
Keep the difference visibleAn Irreversible Burden
People's commitments may not return when the timetable does.
Follow the Risk
The team can restore the previous scheduling process.
Users carry the consequences of commitments made during the trial.