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Write the plan: owner, budget, risks and measures Turn the design into an implementation plan with an accountable owner, a timeline, a budget estimate, named risks, an access and equity impact check, and measures at 30, 90 and 180 days.
What you’ll be able to do Write an implementation plan with an accountable owner, a timeline, a budget estimate, implementation risks, an accessibility and equity impact assessment, and measures of success at 30, 90 and 180 days. Compare the responses to this question and explain your choice: What has to change before this plan can be presented? Draft The capstone implementation plan for your work, including barrier, people affected and solution, owner, timeline and budget, risks and impact. The parts a decision needs Leaders approve plans that answer their questions in advance: who owns this, what will it cost, what could go wrong, and how will we know it worked. The implementation plan is where the capstone team supplies those answers. One accountable owner , named by role, even though several functions do the work; a team is not an owner. A timeline with the few dates that matter. A budget estimate that is honest about what is one-time and what is ongoing, and that names the line the money would come from. Implementation risks , each with a response: old templates still in circulation, a platform update reverting the default, a change in unit leadership, participants’ time not protected. An accessibility and equity impact assessment that asks who could be left out by the fix itself: a new template that is accessible in one tool and not another, a standard that assumes everyone has the same connectivity or language.
Measures at 30, 90 and 180 days answer three different questions. At 30 days: is the change in place? The template is published, the default is set, the standard is issued, the access line appears on invitations. At 90 days: is it working? Materials arrive three days ahead in most meetings, captions are on in every one, access requests through the private contact are answered, and the colleagues who met the barrier report they can prepare and follow. At 180 days: is it still working, and has it spread? The measures have held through a staffing change or a platform update, and the template and standard are in use beyond the original meeting. Every measure describes the meeting, the template, the setting or the aggregate experience; none describes an individual’s performance.
The capstone implementation plan The one-page plan leadership can approve. Every field is required; a blank one is a question a leader will ask.
Barrier, people affected and solution The four-sentence problem statement; the groups affected and who among them is affected most; the solution as co-designed, with the co-design record attached.
Owner, timeline and budget One accountable owner by role who has agreed; the operating owner who maintains the change after the project; the key dates; one-time and ongoing costs with the budget line each would come from.
Risks and impact Each implementation risk with a response, including reversion after updates, old templates in circulation and leadership change; the accessibility and equity impact check asking who could be left out by the fix itself.
Measures at 30, 90 and 180 days 30 days: the change is in place, with the checkable evidence. 90 days: it is working, measured on the process and on the aggregate experience of the people affected. 180 days: it has held through change and spread beyond the original scope. Sources and owner for each measure; none describes an individual.
Complete every field for your barrier, attach the barrier map and the co-design record, and self-review it against the rubric in the next lesson before presenting.
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Download this published draft One owner, three dates, no blank fields What you can change The team controls whether the plan answers a leader’s questions before they are asked.
What to watch for Do not write “the team” as the owner. Do not write “none anticipated” under risks. Do not write a measure that cannot be sourced or that describes a person.
Your next step Fill every field of the plan and ask a leader outside the team to find the question it does not answer.
Measures for the meeting barrier, at three points 30 days: in place 90 days: working 180 days: sustained and spread
Accessible agenda template published and the old one removed from the shared drive. Platform default set to captions on, confirmed by the accessibility lead. Advance-materials standard issued in writing by the unit leader. Access line with a private contact on the invitation template. Share of the series’ meetings with materials sent at least three working days ahead. Share of meetings with captions on from the start. Access requests through the private contact answered before the meeting. The colleagues who met the barrier report, on their own terms, that they can prepare and follow; attendance in the series restored. All 90-day measures still holding after any staffing change or platform update. The template and standard adopted by at least one other meeting series in the unit. Operating owner confirmed and the item on the unit’s review agenda. Risks a capstone plan should name Old way still available
Response: remove old templates and settings from circulation on the day the new ones go live.
Update reverts the default
Response: the setting is documented, owned by a named role in information technology, and rechecked after every platform update.
Leadership changes
Response: the standard is written, the owner is a role not a person, and the item is on a standing review agenda.
The fix excludes someone else
Response: the impact check asks who could be left out, such as people using a different tool or language, and adjusts before launch.
Carry this forward A plan has one accountable owner by role, even when many functions do the work.
Measures at 30, 90 and 180 days answer three different questions: is it in place, is it working, and is it still working.
Risks are named with a response, and the impact assessment asks who could be left out by the fix itself.
One knowledge check; a completed implementation plan for your team’s barrier in the format of the artifact in this lesson.
Complete the plan artifact for your barrier and check it against three questions: is there one owner, could each measure be sourced, and does any measure describe an individual?
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