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📝 Blog Post — The Post-Launch Reality
Hook: Single-owner dependency is the most common and least modeled risk in post-launch commerce operations, and it does not look like a risk until the person is gone.
Angle: Project plans model tasks and timelines but rarely model knowledge concentration. When a critical post-launch workstream stalls because one person goes on PTO or changes roles, the recovery costs more than the original work. This is not a people problem. It is a planning problem that pretends continuity is free.
Source material: Baseline Post-Launch Reality: 'The plan assumed the team. The team was one person.' and 'Distributing a single owner's knowledge before the absence is the right move and rarely the move that gets prioritized.' Cross-cutting: 'Migrations that fall significantly behind during a single owner's absence.' Delta: estimate ownership becomes contentious when integration points are unclear. Personal notes: SkuNexus KPI proposal mentions DR planning and team resilience as first priorities.
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