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CB.5:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

Wrong turnPractical repair
Ask for “engagement” or “content” without a receiving useName the question, recipient and usable result.
Treat every volunteer as available production capacityAgree the bounded work and obtain missing resources or another provider.
A popular answer becomes the accepted technical resultInspect its basis and applicability through the domain criteria.
A short design clinic is presented as a completed decisionPreserve its alternatives and obtain the remaining comparison or acceptance.
A guest delivers a standard lecture unrelated to participants’ questionsPrepare the guest around the receiving problem and connect interaction to later use.
Suggestions disappear into a receiving team’s inboxEstablish inspection and a reasoned response before soliciting more work.
A one-case answer becomes a timeless general instructionPreserve its conditions and obtain a maintained, qualified reusable explanation.