OPS.21:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

Failure	Practical repair
Divide the corporate ratio into team quotas	Translate the wider result through each team’s contribution and its dependencies.
Choose the indicator because its data are free	Test whether it distinguishes useful improvement from a better score.
Make every target equal the forecast	Retain the gap and decide whether action, support, inquiry or a different ambition is worthwhile.
Make every forecast equal the target	Preserve the supported expectation so that a response can be chosen in time.
Treat a peer table as a fair ranking	Establish comparability for that inference or use a narrower learning comparison.
Lower the target after observing a miss	Preserve the original result and explain any warranted revision and its effective use.