My schedule, your problem

Autonomia a zależności operacyjne

Olek changes his schedule flexibly, but Jonas only finds out when it blocks his work. Personal autonomy can create a cost for someone else.

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I’ll move this to tomorrow. Today I’ll save the client issue.

Who changed the sequence?

I did. It made more sense.

You can’t move things my work depends on without telling me.

Am I supposed to ask permission for every obvious adjustment?

Olek, autonomy doesn’t mean invisible changes. Jonas, being informed doesn’t mean approving everything.

So I can change it without asking, but not without signalling it?

Exactly.

Olek understands autonomy as the right to optimise his own work. Jonas sees dependencies that make the same decision change his plan too. The problem is not the change itself, but its invisible cost to another person. Set a simple boundary: people may decide independently within their area, but any change affecting someone else’s work must be signalled clearly and immediately.