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The boundary stated plainly: the questions a timesheet cannot answer, the asks that should be declined, and a description of the end state to measure a proposal against.

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What Time Data Cannot Tell You

Questions routinely asked of a timesheet that it cannot answer, and what to use for each instead.

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Where to Start

The first ninety days, in an order that produces evidence and goodwill rather than a procurement and a grievance.

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What a Working Arrangement Looks Like

A description of the end state, assembled from everything in these notes, as a checklist to measure a proposal against.

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Requests to Refuse

The asks that arrive once a time system exists, why each should be declined, and what to offer instead.

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Questions With Better Sources

Things people ask the time system for that another source answers properly, and where to send them instead.

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Glossary

Terms used across these notes, defined once, including several the industry uses to mean quite different things.

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