Notes from sittings we finished
These are voices from pack owners and function leads, not marketplace stars. Each note names the engagement. One of them still stings; we left it in.
They made us put names next to utilisation before they would draw the first page. Our operations director hated the extra week. The Thursday sitting finally stopped arguing about whether overtime was in or out.
The cadence charter is two pages. I keep it under the blotter. After lock, sales still tries the corridor; now I have a sentence to read back rather than a feeling.
The workshop was blunt. We parked four measures that had lived on the pack for a year. I left with a definition sheet my plant managers could actually say out loud.
Their pack review arrived as a marked PDF, not a slide about “insights.” Half of my first page was demoted. I did not enjoy reading it. I used it.
Working sessions at the Mableton table ran long. Bring the contested extracts, not the polished reprint, or you will waste the morning.
A longer note: the utilisation sitting
A regional manufacturer asked for a first page that operations and finance could share. Utilisation had lived in two extracts for years. We refused to draw it until overtime was in or out, in writing. The extra week delayed their board date by one cycle. After lock, the Thursday room spent its time on a delayed batch, not on the noun. That is the outcome we will defend: fewer minutes of cartography, more minutes on the floor example.
If you want the same argument, start with board-pack KPI dashboards or a pack review of what you already table.