Module 03 · Object A3 Included in the €19

The four phases.The Journey

The phase that comes out empty is the most valuable information in the timeline. And the one that comes out empty is almost always implementation.

AI mode: scheduler · spreads the work over time and points to the bottleneck Phase: cross-cutting Tool: CDT-02 · Compass Rose of the Four Actions Upload it with your project dossier: whatever is already there, it will not ask you again
01The problem

A timeline serves to see what you have planned. This one serves to see what you have not.

Participation without implementation is democratic frustration.

You asked a neighbourhood for time, trust and expectation, and you gave it back a report. People learn that participating is useless. And whoever calls the next process inherits that.

The elections cut the process from 18 to 8 months.

The political calendar, the school calendar and the calendar of local festivities exist whether you look at them or not. Anticipating the collision is design; discovering it is an accident.

We put the workshop in week three because it was the only thing we had confirmed.

Starting with co-design is the most repeated mistake in the trade. The quality of everything depends on having situated and socialised first.

02How it works

The four actions are walked through one by one, with concrete activities, states and weeks, marking what cannot start until something else is closed.

Phase 0 · back from the territory

Before anything else, what has happened outside

The tool opens by asking what has changed in the territory since the last session: who you have talked to, what you have heard, who ought to be moved. The AI structures what you know; the territory corrects what you thought you knew.

Phase A · opening

Real dates or there is no timeline

Start, horizon in weeks, known milestones, resources and, the hardest one, which phase the project is really in. Not where it ought to be.

Phase B · journey

Two compulsory checks

Is there co-design before Situate and Socialise are closed? It tells you and proposes reordering. Is any phase empty? It names it. It is the most valuable information in the object.

Phase C · synthesis

The bottleneck, by name

The dependency that, if it slips, drags all the others with it. In small processes it is hardly ever an activity: it is a person who has not yet said yes.

03The result

Four lanes over a line of weeks, with the dependencies drawn, the empty phase marked and the bottleneck named.

Timeline of the four phases · Benimaclet

start 15 Sept · horizon 14 weeks
01
Situate
Maturity diagnosis
weeks 1 to 4 · done · 7 gaps
Observation of school arrivals and departures
weeks 4 to 7 · in progress
02
Socialise
Joint meeting of the three AMPA
weeks 4 to 6 · in progress · bottleneck
Walking the sequence (steps 2 to 6)
weeks 7 to 10 · does not start until the meeting is closed
03
Co-design
Triad Catalyse · Deploy · Synthesise
weeks 10 to 14 · does not start until Socialise is closed
04
Implement
Empty phase · alarmNobody with the authority and the budget has committed to executing whatever comes out. The question before going on: who has the budget line, and have you already spoken to that person?
The bottleneck

The joint meeting of the three AMPA (weeks 4 to 6). Everything hangs on it: without the three aligned there is no sequence to walk, and without a sequence there is no co-design. If it slips two weeks, co-design falls outside the horizon.

The complete timeline with activities, states, dependencies and the scale of weeks. It is object A3 of the course. On the home page only the empty phase is shown.

04Three rules that are not negotiable

An empty phase is not filled in

If you mentioned no activities for a phase, plausible activities are not invented: the phase is marked empty. That red is the product.

An empty phase 04 is an alarm

Not a to-do. The question is not which activities to put in, but who has the authority and the budget to execute whatever comes out, and whether you have already spoken to that person.

The order is not negotiable

Situate and Socialise before Co-design. If you try to skip it, it sends you back to phases 01 and 02 and tells you why.

Print it and take it to the meeting with whoever commissioned you.

A timeline with the execution phase empty is not a request: it is a project risk belonging to the person in front of you. It is a completely different conversation from “we would need more budget”.

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