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MA.1:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

Rejecting an order from the average-cost multiplication alone. Recover what changes when the order is undertaken, including the capacity and payment conditions. Keep the original report’s meaning available.

Valuing every released hour as an avoided wage payment. State the released capability and the action, if any, that changes payment or displaced work. An unchanged salary cannot be saved merely by assigning it fewer hours.

Refining a harmless decimal while concealing a threshold. Preserve the supply block or qualification boundary first. Add measurement detail only where its plausible variation can change the use.

Using paid capacity as proof of timely availability. Obtain the actual usable and committed capacity for the required window. Payment for a resource does not establish the schedule.