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OPS.11.1:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

Observed or text-invited mistakeConsequenceRepair
Give each departmental box its own copy of a shared workerIndividually feasible plans compete for the same hours.Reconcile resource references and impose the common occupancy constraint.
Sum or average local completions to obtain deliveryThe result ignores joins and the final required contribution.Derive the receiving completion event and its relation to local events.
Preserve a fixed service delay after changing its loadThe comparison suppresses the congestion it may cause.Reopen that service response under the proposed conditions.
Treat a changed route or a new assignment as proof of organizational redesignResource regulation becomes confused with changing who may promise or accept a result.Compare the product, resource, commitment and authority relations separately, then obtain the result needed for each actual change.
Expand every box before comparing an alternativeModeling consumes resources without improving the decision.Refine the part whose omitted distinction can reverse the comparison.