Shortcut Pushback Battlecard
Respond when someone asks for a risky cleaning shortcut.
A stakeholder wants you to overwrite suspicious values before source confirmation. Can you just fix the bad rows so the dashboard stops showing blanks? I can clean them, but I need to preserve the raw values and apply a named rule. Otherwise the dashboard improves while the defect becomes untraceable. Preserve raw values, create a cleaned field, document the rule, and set a threshold for recurrence. The response accepts the business urgency while refusing an irreversible edit. It reframes cleaning as controlled risk reduction rather than perfectionism. If the deadline is immediate, offer a flagged provisional view instead of permanent…
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