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Chapter 02 of 12 · Practical Leadership Handbook

Study Setup and Operational Planning

The decisions and agreements to settle before the first deliverable is built: scope, standards, ownership, access and the planning baseline.

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Updated
2026-10-11

What it is planned to cover

  • The setup questions that prevent most later rework: scope, standards versions, conventions and reusable assets
  • Ownership and RACI between sponsor, provider and functions, written down before work starts
  • Environment, access and tool readiness as dependencies with dates
  • Building the planning baseline: milestones, deliverables, review windows and fixed waits
  • What to agree about change control before the first change arrives
  • A setup checklist you can adapt, with the evidence it should leave

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