Quiz: Are Your New and Old Processes Still Live Together?
A quick workplace quiz about parallel processes, duplicated work and the old workflow that never received a retirement date.
The New Process Went Live. Why Is the Old One Still Clocking In?
The new process launched months ago. The old one still shows up for work.
Take five quick questions to find out how long “temporary” has been employed.
How Long Has Temporary Been Working Here?
Five quick questions and hope you don't have to keep both versions open until the quiz is complete 😇
The old and new processes have both run for nine months, which one is temporary?
The old and new process produce different results. What happens next?
Which sentence have you heard most often?
True or false?
The person maintaining the old process leaves tomorrow. What happens?
Does this feel familiar?
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The new process went live.
The old process kept its shift.
This is Pattern spotting, not an organisational diagnosis. Temporary parallel running can be a valid control. The useful question is whether the reason, owner, end date and exit criteria are still clear.
So… what did you just spot?
Parallel Process Purgatory appears when the old and new process run together long after go-live, often because nobody agreed the conditions for switching one off.
A short fallback period can be sensible. The clue is when “temporary” has no owner, end date or exit test.