Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Are we ready to do this?

Long ago I participated in meetings that were called things like:

• Operational Readiness Review
• Test Readiness Review
• Contract Readiness Review
• Trip Readiness Review
• fill-in-the-blank

Several persons sat together and asked, “Are we ready to do this?”

Regardless of what “this” was, we discussed the answer. Sometimes we had checklists, sometimes we didn’t.

We discussed these things because once we started something, stopping to go back and gather what we forget was quite expensive. The readiness discussion saved us resources and pain. In other words, the readiness discussion paid for itself many times over.

Try it. Please.