Coordinate and act
The pass
One final quality gate before work goes out
One named person checks AI-influenced work before it leaves the team.
Borrowed from professional kitchens, where an expediter checks every plate at the pass before it goes to a guest. Read the original source.
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Try this first
Name one person who signs off before a category of work goes out.
Use it when
There's no final quality gate and work leaves the team unchecked.
Skip it when
It becomes a bottleneck if everything funnels through one person, and it should not let everyone else stop caring. Use it where a final gate matters and size the scope so the owner is not swamped.
How to introduce it
Name one person as the last gate. Work does not leave the team until it passes through them. That gives you a single clear owner for this is good enough to go out, instead of a shared assumption that somebody looked.
How to show up
Decide with the team what the role covers and who holds it. Make sure it is a real check rather than a signature. Rotate it if the load is heavy, and never leave it unheld.
How long it takes
Little setup beyond naming the role and its scope.
What makes it hard
The gate either jams or degrades into a wave-through under load, so watch for both. People will also offload all quality thinking onto the gatekeeper. Quality stays everyone's job and the pass is the last check, not the only one.
What it looks like when it's working
Everyone knows who signs off, and flawed work stops before it leaves because someone looks. A rubber stamp or a jam means the scope is wrong.
How long until it sticks
A few weeks to settle what the check covers and to keep it real rather than nominal.
How you know it stuck
The team knows who holds the pass for each kind of work, and trusts the check.
The idea behind it
When everyone owns final quality, nobody does. A named owner is what stops flawed work leaving because each person assumed another had checked.
Where it comes from
Professional kitchens. A named "pass" for AI-influenced work. One owner checks it before it leaves the team. One person (the expediter) owns the final quality gate before any dish leaves the kitchen.