2.3.8 LUMPS: The Micro Scale

Little Untransformed Meaningful Problematic Situations

Scope: The Micro Level (Individual / Team / Code)
Strategic Owner: Frontline Managers, Contributors.

LUMPS are the details, the daily pressures, and the highly localized problems within each sub-domain of a BUMP. They are functionally divided logically by the dimensions of the problem space, meaning they exhibit limited complexity and are generally within the capability of a single human's intuition to transform.

While small individually, a critical mass of LUMPS will act like quicksand, preventing an organization from ever allocating the cognitive bandwidth required to address their larger, systemic BUMPS.