DesignDesign: Month five…
Month five
The basement goes eight metres down, three metres from the old Precinct. Stevie fixes targets to its walls and reads them every morning. Rex holds the staff.
Stevie's journey · Engineering · Story 6
The readings nobody read
The monitors on the old Precinct spot movement on Tuesday. The people who could act find out eight days later.
The wrong way
Every Friday
The readings go into Stevie's spreadsheet. Every Friday it's emailed round as a PDF to 23 people.
Tuesday
One reading passes the trigger level the designer set. A formula turns the cell amber. Nobody but Stevie ever opens the spreadsheet.
Friday
The PDF goes out: 23 people, 23 inboxes, and everyone assumes someone else has read it.
BuildBuild: The following Wednesday…
The next Wednesday
The site manager opens it. By then the dig is a metre deeper, and there's a crack up the old Precinct's wall.
The next Wednesday
Digging stops. The client's engineers ask when we knew. The honest answer is "Tuesday. Last week."
The monitors saw it on Tuesday. The people who could do something saw it eight days later.
Find out what Stevie should have doneStevie's Lesson 6 · The readings nobody read, then the same story done the right way.