Khaled Jassem Lab

Essays · Part V

The Hidden Costs of Fragmentation

The compounding price an organization pays when its remedies are adopted piecemeal, without a logic to connect them.

  1. XVWhen Verification and Forgetting Work Against Each OtherAdopt two good disciplines without coordinating them, and each quietly undoes the other.
  2. XVIOrganizational Knowledge DebtLike technical debt, but for the things you know that are no longer true.
  3. XVIISpeed vs. Soundness: A Designed Dilemma, Not a FateThe trade-off between deciding fast and deciding well is usually an artifact of missing structure.