The PM Portfolio Challenge Map
Take your most time-consuming preventive tasks, one at a time. Ask two questions , write the task in a box, and read the policy. No score. No total.
One page.Five honest answers.
ASK THIS FIRST
Has this task ever actually caught anything?
If you can’t show it has — or nobody knows — that is your first finding. Put the task on the map anyway, to see what should replace it.
IF IT FAILS, DOES IT HURT?
HIGH
LOW
DOES AGE PREDICT THE FAILURE? — from your failure history, not the manual
NO
YES
A CALENDAR CANNOT HELP HERE
So ask one more: can you see it coming?
YES → MONITOR THE CONDITION
NO → REDESIGN — redundancy or a spare
THE TASK EARNS ITS PLACE
KEEP IT
Set the interval from the wear evidence — not from habit.
Wear, fatigue, corrosion, consumables live here.
NOTHING TO PREVENT, LITTLE TO LOSE
RUN TO FAILURE
A decision, not a defeat. Stop the task; fix it when it breaks.
This is usually where the hidden capacity is.
ONLY IF IT’S CHEAP
KEEP ONLY IF IT’S CHEAP
Otherwise stretch the interval, or bundle it into a visit you
were making anyway.
The more intrusive the task, the higher the bar it must clear.
Intrusive + age doesn’t predict it = the worst combination you own.
Statutory / safety work doesn’t go on this map — it is done regardless. (You can still bundle it and stop over-servicing it.)First-pass triage: it tells you which tasks deserve a deeper look. Not a substitute for a failure-mode-level RCM analysis.
Found tasks you can’t justify?
Tell Paula which ones, and what the failure history actually showed. She’ll tell you what we’d challenge next — free, no pitch, no follow-up sequence.
No form. No newsletter. We don’t run one.
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