A register of work that failed the existence test: the verdict, the evidence, the hours, and whether an automation build was avoided. The launch entries come from the Kill This Process Kit's worked example, a labeled composite; real entries are added only from organisations that consent, anonymised.
Zero opens in 90 days across a 41-name distribution list. No mandatory anchor, no decision affected. Was the fourth most requested automation candidate.
Worked example (composite, numbers illustrative)
The middle two approvers waved through 98.6% of instances unchanged (986 of 1,000). Their actual controls had moved into a system threshold years earlier.
Worked example (composite, numbers illustrative)
The planning team quoted the headline table every morning; nothing in its nine attachments had been opened in the sample period. Kept the table, cut the ballast.
Worked example (composite, numbers illustrative)
Exception rate past 60%: most vendors entered through an expedite path the procedure did not know existed. The workaround was the real process; it got rebuilt with the two controls that genuinely mattered.
Worked example (composite, numbers illustrative)
A named consumer in payroll, a citable anchor in the labour agreement, exceptions under 5%. Passed the applicability gate and routed to a deterministic workflow: an IF statement does it best.
Worked example (composite, numbers illustrative)
The free 5-minute test interrogates one process. The Kill This Process Kit triages the whole portfolio: ten evidence questions, five deterministic verdicts, a 90-minute session your own sponsor runs, signed memos, and the dashboard that prices the automation you avoided building. Automation is the last verdict, not the first question.
Killed something worth logging? Send the anonymised entry to mathieu@kesslernity.com. Published only with written consent.
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