{"slug":"run-team-operating-cadence","name":"Run the Team Operating Cadence","family":"Manager System","version":"0.1.0","status":"draft","note":"draft reference — not a fitted standard","summary":"Run the minimum recurring planning, coordination, decision, learning, and improvement mechanisms needed to keep team work visible and moving.","purpose":"Synchronize work and decisions at the rhythm the operating system requires without turning management into a stack of status meetings.","steps":[{"sequence":1,"name":"Design the cadence system","purpose":"Match recurring mechanisms to the team’s natural work and decision cycles."},{"sequence":2,"name":"Prepare the operating state","purpose":"Make current evidence available before synchronous attention is consumed."},{"sequence":3,"name":"Orient to outcomes and priorities","purpose":"Create shared situational awareness without turning the event into serial status narration."},{"sequence":4,"name":"Coordinate work and dependencies","purpose":"Protect flow across people, disciplines, systems, shifts, and connected processes."},{"sequence":5,"name":"Make decisions and escalate constraints","purpose":"Move issues through explicit authority instead of allowing repeated discussion."},{"sequence":6,"name":"Close commitments and communicate","purpose":"Translate the cadence event into one authoritative operating state."},{"sequence":7,"name":"Review and improve the cadence","purpose":"Keep recurring mechanisms useful as work and context change."}],"connections":[{"direction":"upstream","processName":"Establish the Manager Operating Role","processSlug":"establish-manager-operating-role","trigger":"The Manager Operating Charter launches or changes."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Manage Team Capacity and Priorities","processSlug":"manage-team-capacity-and-priorities","trigger":"The cadence identifies a capacity or priority decision."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Enable Decisions and Escalation","processSlug":"enable-decisions-and-escalation","trigger":"A decision requires focused work or authority outside the cadence event."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Run Manager Check-ins and Feedback","processSlug":"run-manager-check-ins","trigger":"A matter requires an individual operating conversation."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Review Manager-System Health","processSlug":"review-manager-system-health","trigger":"The manager-system review point or material signal occurs."}],"plannedConnections":[],"measures":[{"name":"Cadence operating value","definition":"Combined review of decisions, resolved dependencies, commitment reliability, participant evidence, outcome movement, and time cost; not meeting satisfaction alone.","cadence":"Monthly or quarterly"},{"name":"Material-item closure quality","definition":"Material agenda items with complete state, owner, timing, and source update divided by all material agenda items.","cadence":"Per event"},{"name":"Decision and dependency flow time","definition":"Elapsed time from ready state to decision or acknowledged dependency outcome, by type, authority, and wait cause.","cadence":"Weekly or monthly"},{"name":"Authoritative state adoption","definition":"Applicable items sourced from and closed in authoritative systems divided by all applicable items.","cadence":"Monthly"},{"name":"Cadence exception pattern","definition":"Exceptions by mechanism, type, owner, severity, cause, recurrence, and disposition.","cadence":"Monthly or quarterly"},{"name":"Attention, access, voice, safety, quality, and privacy guardrail","definition":"Context-specific review of time load, participation, shifts, access, voice, safety, quality, privacy, and participant feedback; not a causal or legal conclusion.","cadence":"At every formal cadence review"}]}