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Foundational basic Patterns

Combine activities

Combine small activities into composite activities

Buffer information

Buffer external information and subscribe to updates

Empower resources

Empower workers for more decision-making authority

Deploy extra resources

If capacity is insufficient, consider increasing the available number of resources

Establish standardized interfaces

Consider a standardized interface with customers and partners

Minimize numerical involvement

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Outsource activities

Delegate and optimize your operations

Parallelize activities

Consider whether activities may be executed in parallel

Quality-based task assignment

Allocate task based on past feedback or quality metrics

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Patterns paired

Apply triage

Consider the division of a general activity into two or more alternative activities

Specialist-generalist

Consider to deepen or broaden the skills of resources

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