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The Ballistic Maturity Model
A five-stage framework for moving from ad-hoc throwing to governed, auditable downward force.
Abstract
Organizations throw things, and will for as long as gravity is offered. Yet the practice sits outside the governance, observability, and assurance frameworks governing every other operational activity. This paper introduces the Ballistic Maturity Model (BMM): five stages of progression from unmanaged throwing to governed downward force. The decisive leap is not throwing better, but learning what not to throw.
1.Introduction
Consider the printer. Nearly every printer is, eventually, thrown — rarely modeled, never attested, unregretted only by accident. It succeeds despite the absence of process, not because of it. Across an enterprise's object inventory, the scale of ungoverned force is apparent.
Throwing is a legitimate operational activity, deserving the maturity lens applied to software delivery, security, and finance. The Ballistic Maturity Model provides it.
2.The five stages
An organization's stage is set not by how much it throws, but by how much of its throwing is modeled, governed, and attested.
Stage 0 — Ad-hoc (Reactive)
Throwing occurs spontaneously, without record — in parking lots, break rooms, moments of feeling. No distinction is drawn between yeetable and un-yeetable payloads. Regret is common and unmeasured.
Stage 1 — Repeatable (Documented)
Throws are recorded after the fact. A clipboard appears. The organization can say something was thrown — but not where it landed, or whether it should have been.
Stage 2 — Modeled (Predictive)
The organization forecasts the arc before committing. Apex and landing zone are estimated in advance. Throwing becomes a decision, not an event.
Stage 3 — Governed (Restrained)
The decisive stage. The organization maintains a registry of protected asset classes — a Do-Not-Yeet list — and enforces it at launch. For the first time, it can prove not just what it threw, but what it refused to. Restraint becomes a capability.
Stage 4 — Attested (Optimized)
Every throw produces a signed, immutable certificate of ground contact. Telemetry feeds continuous improvement. Regret reaches zero and stays there. The organization throws with total confidence, fully documented.
3.The restraint inflection
Our field data (n = 1.4 billion throws) shows regret does not decline smoothly. It drops sharply — nearly to zero — at the Stage 2 to Stage 3 transition, on adopting a Do-Not-Yeet registry. Throwing accurately (Stage 2) reduces missed throws; throwing selectively (Stage 3) reduces regret. Only the second is existential.
Put plainly: an organization that throws precisely but hasn't decided what it must never throw is not mature — merely dangerous with good aim.
4.Implementation
- Instrument existing throws (reach Stage 1) — you cannot govern what you do not record.
- Adopt arc modeling and apex forecasting (Stage 2).
- Establish and enforce a Do-Not-Yeet registry (Stage 3) — begin with the baby, the cat, and anything on fire.
- Issue signed ground-contact certificates for every throw (Stage 4).
- Report regret quarterly. Target: zero. Accept: nothing else.
5.Conclusion
Downward force is not going away. The organizations that thrive will treat throwing as the governed, observable, attested activity it deserves to be — measured not by what they can throw, but by what they choose not to.
R.References
- Voss, D. & Iyer, M. (2020). One Arc, Modeled: Early Results from Trajectory Cloud v0. Yeeterprise Research.
- Anand, P. (2021). Toward a Taxonomy of the Un-Yeetable. Proceedings of the Do-Not-Yeet Working Group.
- Boone, S. (2024). On Keeping the Number at Zero [methods withheld]. Internal.
- Yeeterprise, Inc. (2022). Our Posture Is Down: The Inaugural ESG Report.
The research
Ungoverned force is a solved problem.
Our research shows unattested throwing introduces measurable regret; a registry of 84 protected classes eliminates it at release. The paper details the SLA model, the attestation pipeline, and the path that stops the wrong throw.
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