Reporting · What gets reported · Component
The purpose
Who asked for each and why, both of which age — because a report requested for a project that ended can go.
The deliverable
What it is
Reports outlive their reasons. The project ended, the person left, the decision it supported is no longer taken — and the report continues because stopping it requires a decision.
Recording the requester makes retirement a short conversation rather than an unanswerable question.
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What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
A report whose requester has left the organisation is a retirement candidate by default.
The other components in what gets reported
The inventory
Everything produced, with what it contains — generated rather than remembered, because the estate is always larger than anyone thinks.
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Where the same numbers appear in several places — which is common, consolidatable and a source of inconsistency.
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