This effect resulted from an enterprise overproducing in a given plan cycle. They would have to match their new level of higher production in the next cycle as the plan was ‘adjusted’ to fit the new data. An anti-innovation bias (also from fear of the ratchet effect) "Storming" (shturmovshchina) which was the hurry to complete the plan at the end of a planning cycle resulting in poor production quality "Scattering" of resources (excessive spread, raspylenie sredstv), where too many projects (esp. construction) would have been started simultaneously and it took much longer to complete because of a lack of available inputs on time