Possessing every component and none of the ordering, which is the characteristic form of failed execution.
Morecambe's defence, when told he was playing the wrong notes, was that he was playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order. The joke names a failure that is easy to miss: an organisation or a design may hold every necessary element and be worthless because sequence, dependency and timing carry most of the value.
In practice
- A project with every workstream staffed and none sequenced delivers nothing for a year and can account for every hour.
- A recipe followed with the steps reordered produces something that contained the right ingredients.