OPS.5:2 - Problem

Boards and intake systems compress unlike truth states. “Ready”, “selected”, “approved”, “assigned”, and “in progress” become interchangeable labels. A high priority is treated as permission; an available performer as authority; a scheduled slot as capacity; a generated change as started Work; and an admission decision as a fulfilled commitment.

The opposite failure keeps every item nominally open. Nothing is explicitly rejected, deferred, or returned, so the operation accumulates hidden commitments and starts. Practitioners cannot recover which demand was considered, why it did not enter, or what would justify another look.