Keeping your roles fresh
Roles describe the work as it is today. When nobody touches them for a month, Moral Fabric says so.
What the check looks at
For every role you hold, the app looks at the last time any of these changed:
- the role itself: its name, purpose, accountabilities, or who holds it
- your ratings on the role (Skill, Energy, Attention)
If none of that has changed for 30 days, a notice appears on My Roles and on your home page. It does not create tasks or send reminders. It only tells you that nothing moved, so you can decide whether that is still true.
Why it matters
Roles decay quietly. A role that says "run the monthly newsletter" keeps saying that after the newsletter became weekly, after a colleague took over the design, and after you stopped doing it altogether. Nobody lies; the words simply stop matching the work.
Stale roles cost the whole team: the org chart misleads new colleagues, the team Lead plans against work that has moved, and your own role ratings describe a role that no longer exists.
How to keep them fresh, in five minutes
Expand a role and scan its accountabilities. Remove what you no longer do; add what you started doing.
Rate the role again if your Skill, Energy or Attention changed. See Role Ratings: Skill, Energy, Attention .
Bigger changes, like splitting a role or handing it over, go through your team's governance meeting. See Changing roles for the three process options.
Any of these resets the clock. So does a colleague editing the role, because the app tracks changes by anyone, not only by you. See Change history and the activity log for where changes are recorded.
Make your own variation of a pattern role
A role you adopted from the pattern catalog starts as a copy that Moral Fabric keeps up to date: when the pattern improves, your copy improves with it. The bar under the role name says so: This role is woven and maintained by Moral Fabric.
To fit it to your team, agree the change the way your team changes roles (see Changing roles ), then:
Open the role and click the pencil.
Change the name, purpose, accountabilities or domains.
Click Save , then Save as variation .
The bar now reads Your own variation of the … pattern, and from then on:
- Updates to the pattern no longer reach this role. Your wording stays as you wrote it.
- The bar names the pattern it came from, with a link to the pattern catalog.
- You can adopt the original pattern again, for example to keep both side by side.
Assigning people or moving the role to another team keeps it a pattern copy. Only a change to what the role says makes a variation.