Contingency Planning · Decision points · Component
The criterion
What is looked at on the day — agreed in advance, so the decision is not argued from scratch under pressure.
The deliverable
What it is
A decision point without a criterion becomes a meeting about whether things are going well, which is answered optimistically.
Two or three pieces of evidence, agreed when the plan was made, are what make the meeting short and the outcome sound.
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What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
Effort, commitment and confidence are all sincere and none of them predicts the outcome.