Why incident ownership stalls after go live
It rarely stops all at once. It decays, and the decay has a shape.
The usual failure: Items sit unassigned in a shared queue. The tool records that they were logged and nothing about who was going to do anything, which is the exact problem the shared mailbox had.
It is worth being precise about the difference between not started and decayed. A practice that never began needs a decision. A practice that began and slid back needs to know which week it slid, and who noticed.
What it should look like instead: Every open item has a named owner at all times, and reassignment is an explicit act rather than an item drifting back to a queue nobody watches.
The measurable version of this is a score that falls between two rounds in one area while the rest hold. That is specific enough to ask three people about directly, which is how it gets fixed.
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