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Small-Test Guide.

Try a change at the smallest real scale that would tell you whether it works, and decide in advance what success looks like, so you learn cheaply before committing the whole organization.

For each fix you have chosen to work on.

Design the smallest honest test

Run it and read it honestly

Next step from the result

Worked: take it to the Adopt-and-Standardize Guide. Needed adjusting: adjust and test again, small. Did not work: close it in the log with what you learned, and move to the next priority. That is a good outcome, not a wasted one.

Small beats big. A small test that fails is not a failure; it is a cheap lesson that saved you a costly, organization-wide mistake. Decide success in advance, or you will talk yourself into calling any result a win. Feeds the Adopt-and-Standardize Guide.

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