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Ask what this entity actually makes that others downstream consume. Name the output, not the activity. If the entity vanished tomorrow, which specific artifact or supply stops arriving, and who is left waiting for it?
Ask what this entity actually makes that others downstream consume. Name the output, not the activity. If the entity vanished tomorrow, which specific artifact or supply stops arriving, and who is left waiting for it?
Example
The coordinator produces the weekly project status doc and the written meeting recaps. During her two-week vacation, no one wrote either, so three project leads made scheduling calls on stale information and two deadlines slipped.
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