The report table is agreed. No one is responsible for it.

This is a different problem.

The table looked clean on the whiteboard.

Seventeen columns. One row per batch.

Every department's data, agreed, signed, version-numbered.

Oran had been looking at it for three days.

He had a document called Problems with this table.

It had eleven items in it now.

He was still finding more.

Problem 1: One batch, many inspections.

QA inspects at three stages: incoming material, in-process, and final.

Each stage produces a separate inspection record.

Each record has its own result, its own inspector, its own timestamp.

The current table has one row per batch.

One inspection_result column. One inspector_id . One inspected_at .

Which inspection result goes in the row?

Oran sent an email to QA.

QA replied: "Show the final result.…