Check the capacity impact of a proposal before you accept it.
In the Weekly Team Capacity Planning Kit's fictional Juniper Design Studio example, Casey has:
• 28 net hours available for the week
• 20 hours of committed work
• 8 hours remaining
Before running a workshop exercise, test the instructions with someone who hasn't helped plan it.
A new fictional example: an adult workshop asks pairs to “review the sample and improve it.” In a trial run, one pair corrects spelling while another rewrites the whole document....
A client can change the delivery plan without adding a single page.
A new fictional example: a two-page brochure has an agreed five-working-day turnaround after final copy arrives. The plan allows four working days for production, followed by one working day for client review.
A shared-drive copy can become out of date before anyone switches to it.
A new fictional example, with all times on the same morning in UTC:
• 09:00: the project folder is copied to its destination
• 09:30: the copied proposal is checked against the source
• 10:15: a teammate...