Waiting
Decisions and work stop whenever the person carrying the knowledge is unavailable.
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The problem is not Peter. The problem is that critical knowledge exists only in one person — not in a shared, qualified system.
WHAT ACTUALLY HURTS
Decisions and work stop whenever the person carrying the knowledge is unavailable.
Context, rules and exceptions live implicitly in a person instead of being traceable in the system.
Vacation, illness, turnover or overload become process risks.
MACHINE PERSPECTIVE
A useful machine approach starts by making observable rules, relationships, decisions and evidence explicit. Machine can provide known context and carry recurring paths. Human remains necessary where genuine judgment, intent or responsibility is required.
PROBLEM IDENTITY
key-person dependency · knowledge silo · process bottleneck · single point of knowledge · everyone waits for one person