The Truth About RACIs… no one uses them
The RACI irony: created on Day 1, abandoned by Day 2.
At the beginning of nearly every major program, someone builds a RACI. Then it disappears. No one ever goes back to it. No one ever ties workplans to it. It becomes a document that dies the day it is shared.
It lives in a slide deck. The project plan lives somewhere else. The RAID log lives somewhere else. Finance tracks value in yet another system. From that moment on, governance becomes ceremonial.
Here is where blind spots begin
Value realization starts to trend down, and everyone is oblivious:
- A task slips
- A dependency shifts
- A new risk emerges
And people assume: "That is not mine." "I am just supporting." "I thought IT owned that." By the time leadership sees the issue, value has already eroded.
Why this matters
At MADignite, we are deeply passionate about eradicating these situations because this is EXACTLY where executions derail and value realization begins to erode rapidly.
- Governance must be tied to live tasks
- Ownership must adjust when dependencies move
- Every value statement must have one clear accountable leader
- Accountability cannot be a document , it has to be operational
Execution fails from misaligned accountability. And that is fixable.