When Is It Time to Retire a Shared Routine?

A recurring meeting, check-in, or shared task can keep going long after it stops helping. Yet ending the routine can feel like abandoning the purpose it once served.

What tells you a shared routine needs to be paused, redesigned, or retired? Is it that the original need has changed, that no one clearly owns the next step, or that the effort no longer leads to a useful outcome? How do you make that call without treating every change as a failure—or asking one person to keep the routine alive indefinitely?