The records quality principle everyone forgets

“Minimal extraneous information”

Everyone tells their organisations to produce accurate, timely, complete (etc.) records, and then creates templates and encourages practices that mean the two sentences people need are on pages 7 and 12 of the document.

Quality SHOULD start with two ideas - necessary and sufficient.

Need two sentences?

Create a two sentence record.

Every additional word wastes time, resources and attention.

The thing that kills quality and many records programs are four words “we might need this.”