Core methods | about 45 minutes | free
Test a change sequence against available capacity, released capacity, dependencies and a protected experiment's interfaces.
An original small rehearsal of published sequencing ideas. It does not reproduce a proprietary training exercise or claim that a protected bubble is a complete Mosaic transformation.
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Fictional case: a service has two staff-days each week available for change, separate from its essential delivery work. A: remove duplicate reporting, needs two change-days in one week and releases two additional change-days per week from the following week. B: redesign triage, needs three change-days in one week and cannot start before A is complete. C: test a resident-led appointment process, needs four change-days in one week and cannot start before B. B and C release no additional capacity in this toy calculation. The released time is available only if managers stop demanding the old duplicate report. The C experiment needs a bounded group of cases and explicit interfaces with ordinary delivery.
Use paper, your own drawing tool or the notes below. Attempt each step before opening its comparison. Describe a diagram in words when that is more accessible.
Produce: A week-by-week capacity and dependency table.
Week 1: available two days, spend two on A. Week 2: available four days if A's release is real, spend three on B. Week 3: available four days, spend four on C. No banking of unused days is assumed. Starting B or C in week 1 exceeds capacity, even if their expected benefits are larger.
Produce: A release condition and an observable test.
The old duplicate report must actually stop, and the freed time must be usable by the people needed for subsequent work. Check calendars, work records and staff experience after A. A nominal saving in one team's spreadsheet may not create available change capacity in another team.
Produce: Boundary, permissions, interfaces and stop/exit conditions.
Specify eligible cases, resident consent, staff discretion, safety constraints and which usual rules may change. Agree hand-offs to specialists and ordinary delivery. Track whether work is displaced outside the bubble. Set conditions for stopping, adapting or incorporating what is learned. A permanent exception that depends on unpaid heroics is not a sustainable redesign.
Produce: A short explanation of why the rankings differ.
C may contribute most visibly to the end purpose, but cannot be done with present capacity or before B. A may be valuable partly because it creates the conditions for later work. Doability, contribution, capacity release and removed constraints all matter. The arithmetic does not settle political acceptability or prove any benefit will occur.
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The programme launches A, B and C together because each has a strong business case, using the same two staff-days three times.
Represent shared capacity once. Sequence prerequisites and verify released time before committing it. Make the next step conditional where the release or feasibility is uncertain.
A releases only one usable change-day each week. Can the original sequence continue?
Week 2 has three days, enough for B. Week 3 also has three, insufficient for C's four-day indivisible task. C must be redesigned, postponed or given real additional capacity. Do not silently assume unused time or benefits can be borrowed from the future.
A different model can be defensible when its purpose, assumptions and reasoning are explicit. A contradiction, incorrect unit, invented fact or unacknowledged change of purpose needs repair. Keep both your first attempt and revision.
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