Competitors · Monitoring · Component
The owner
Who watches, and how often they actually look — because collective monitoring does not happen and its absence is silent.
The deliverable
What it is
Monitoring assigned to a function is monitoring assigned to nobody. It is performed irregularly, by whoever is curious, and stops entirely when they are busy.
The time required is small — an hour a month for most watch lists — and naming it is what makes it survive a busy quarter.
One level in
What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
Record the checks that found nothing. Otherwise a later surprise cannot be traced to a missed signal.
The other components in monitoring
The watch list
What is monitored, with the decision each item would affect — because an item with no decision attached is interesting rather than intelligence.
LearnThe trigger
What development counts as worth reporting — a defined threshold rather than an unfiltered feed.
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