Post-failure diagnosis

The change initiative didn't deliver. What's the autopsy say?

The change initiative didn't deliver. The retrospective will probably blame execution — "we should have communicated better, we should have had more sponsorship." That's an explanation that protects the design and blames the doing. A behavioural autopsy goes further: what specific behaviour did we expect, which conditions were supposed to produce it, and which conditions actually showed up? That diagnostic shifts what "next time" means. Not better comms — different intervention, addressing the actual barrier. The pages here are about post-failure work as a forensic discipline. What you can recover from a programme that didn't stick, and what the next attempt has to design for that this one didn't.