Trending reports

The main problem with trending reports is that mistakes that happened earlier during the year have a nasty habit of impinging on the awareness of management, after having been safely buried. In this case, I was involved, at least on the periphery. It was a change in packaging, and, IMHO, was very badly handled.

The Change Control forms were not produced until part way through the process, when they should have appeared at the very beginning.

People were not informed until right at the end (often by Yours Truly), when they should have been notified at the very beginning of the impending change by upper management, and kept in the loop of the progress of the whole project.

And, some time after it was all over, Darth Chaos confessed to me that she had had her wrist slapped by Mr Big over the ultimate cost of the whole affair. Which is why I am reluctant to mention the whole thing in this trending report, even though I should, because it was the cause of a non-conformance in a batch record.

The hell with it. I'll bury it. I don't want to go through the whole business again...