Exercise 2: A Better, Still-Inconsistent Team — Possible Solution ==================================================================== SETUP ------------------------------ reason_recorded probability raised from 0.15 to 0.40 RESULT ------------------------------ Reason-recorded probability 0.40: 13/20 shipped features have no recorded reason they exist Chapter's own 0.15 result: 16/20 untraceable Lightweight-process result: 0/20 untraceable COMPARISON ------------------------------ Raising the probability from 0.15 to 0.40 (roughly 2.7x better habits around writing commit messages) only reduced the untraceable count from 16/20 to 13/20 - a modest improvement, still leaving 65% of shipped work with no recorded justification. Even a team that's meaningfully better than the chapter's own baseline at documenting their work informally still falls far short of the lightweight process's guaranteed 0/20. WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ This makes an important point the single 0.15-probability data point in the chapter couldn't make alone: the problem isn't really "this particular team is bad at writing things down" - it's that relying on individual discipline, even meaningfully improved individual discipline, is structurally worse than a process that simply requires the information before work starts. No amount of team members trying harder to remember to comment their commits reaches the lightweight process's 0% failure rate, because "trying harder" is still probabilistic, while "the backlog entry requires a reason field" is not.