Preliminary Anti-Action

{
  "id": "TRIZ-09",
  "title": "Preliminary Anti-Action",
  "intent": "Reduce risk and cost by performing preventive actions before a problem fully manifests.",
  "triz_principle": {
    "number": 9,
    "name": "Preliminary Anti-Action",
    "definition": "If an action is likely to cause harmful effects, introduce countermeasures in advance."
  },
  "problem_understanding": {
    "core_contradiction": "We need to move fast, but changes often introduce defects, incidents, or rework.",
    "why_this_hurts": "Fixing problems after they occur is more expensive and disruptive than preventing them early.",
    "typical_signals": [
      "recurring incidents after releases",
      "late discovery of data quality issues",
      "frequent rollback or hotfixes",
      "teams firefighting instead of building"
    ]
  },
  "solution_logic": {
    "core_idea": "Anticipate likely failure modes and neutralize them before execution.",
    "key_rule": "Prevent the most probable damage, not all theoretical risks.",
    "how_it_resolves_the_contradiction": "Speed is preserved while risk is reduced through targeted, early safeguards."
  },
  "application_patterns": {
    "consulting": [
      "risk pre-mortems before major decisions",
      "checklists for common failure points",
      "early stakeholder alignment to avoid late objections"
    ],
    "software_engineering": [
      "input validation before processing",
      "static analysis and linters before runtime",
      "contract tests before integration"
    ],
    "architecture": [
      "circuit breakers to prevent cascading failures",
      "schema validation before data ingestion",
      "canary releases to detect issues early"
    ],
    "enterprise_sap": [
      "pre-check reports before MDG change request submission",
      "data quality rules before replication",
      "simulation and test runs before cutover activities"
    ]
  },
  "anti_patterns": [
    "trying to prevent every imaginable risk",
    "heavy upfront processes that slow delivery",
    "preventive controls disconnected from real failure modes"
  ],
  "usage_guidance": {
    "use_when": [
      "the same problems repeat across releases or projects",
      "late fixes are very expensive",
      "failure modes are well known"
    ],
    "do_not_use_when": [
      "risks are unknown or highly exploratory",
      "prevention costs more than recovery"
    ]
  },
  "diagnostic_questions": [
    "What failures happen most often after changes?",
    "Which problems are cheap to prevent but expensive to fix?",
    "What signals could warn us earlier?"
  ],
  "example": {
    "before": "Data errors are discovered only after replication to downstream systems.",
    "after": "Pre-validation rules catch data issues before replication is triggered."
  },
  "meta": {
    "schema": "dkharlanau.dataset.byte",
    "schema_version": "1.1",
    "dataset": "TRIZ-bytes",
    "source_project": "cv-ai",
    "source_path": "TRIZ-bytes/TRIZ-09.json",
    "generated_at_utc": "2026-02-03T14:33:32+00:00",
    "creator": {
      "name": "Dzmitryi Kharlanau",
      "role": "SAP Lead",
      "website": "https://dkharlanau.github.io",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkharlanau"
    },
    "attribution": {
      "attribution_required": true,
      "preferred_citation": "Dzmitryi Kharlanau (SAP Lead). Dataset bytes: https://dkharlanau.github.io"
    },
    "license": {
      "name": "",
      "spdx": "",
      "url": ""
    },
    "links": {
      "website": "https://dkharlanau.github.io",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkharlanau"
    },
    "contact": {
      "preferred": "linkedin",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkharlanau"
    },
    "canonical_url": "https://dkharlanau.github.io/datasets/TRIZ-bytes/TRIZ-09.json",
    "created_at_utc": "2026-02-03T14:33:32+00:00",
    "updated_at_utc": "2026-02-03T15:29:02+00:00",
    "provenance": {
      "source_type": "chat_export_extraction",
      "note": "Extracted and curated by Dzmitryi Kharlanau; enriched for attribution and crawler indexing."
    },
    "entity_type": "triz_byte",
    "entity_subtype": "",
    "summary": "Reduce risk and cost by performing preventive actions before a problem fully manifests."
  }
}