Glossary
Redesign
Redesign is the middle column of the Three Columns Workshop — the structural change that is too large for an in-meeting Remove but too important to Accept. Redesign items get a named owner, a target date, and a check-in cadence; they are the workshop's main output.
Redesign exists because most Three Doors Defer With Clarity decisions point at something the team genuinely cannot fix in the moment. The quarterly workshop converts those deferrals into named structural projects with an owner, a target date, and a check-in cadence.
A Redesign is not a backlog item. It carries an explicit promise: by date X, the structure that produced this frustration will look different in a way the team can describe in one sentence. If the date passes without a structural change, the workshop is required to either re-Redesign with a new date and new owner, or move the item to Accept and name the trade-off.
Redesign is the column most likely to expose whether leadership is actually willing to change the architecture or only willing to talk about changing it. The platform tracks Redesign aging and surfaces stale items on The Mirror.
How it is measured
- Redesign hit-rate: share of Redesign items that produced a visible structural change by their target date.
- Aging Redesigns: count of Redesigns past their target date without a re-commitment.
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