Your Own JIT vs JIC Test

You are going to design a real experiment on a process in your own work or daily life — and find out how resilient it actually is.

Write your hypothesis

Complete this sentence: 'If I reduce the buffer I normally keep in [a specific process, resource, or routine], then ___.' Be concrete — name the process and the buffer.

One variable vs the control

What is the ONE thing you would change? Write it on the left. What stays exactly the same? Write that on the right. (If you change two things, you have no experiment.)

I would change

This stays the same

Measure and predict

How would you know if the experiment worked? Name one measurable outcome. Then mark on the spectrum where you honestly predict the result will land.

Complete failure

Partial success

What would prove you wrong?

Look back at your hypothesis in Step 1. Name the single specific result that would prove it wrong — be exact, not vague. Then write: how likely is that result?

The real question

Choose one word that captures what is truly holding you back from running this experiment in real life — and write one sentence explaining why that word is honest.

Why that word?

Discuss Tell your partner: are you more afraid this experiment will fail — or that it will succeed and force you to change something permanently?

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