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Quick Start Briefs

Quick Start Briefs

Entry-level briefs for anyone starting a change, and no homework. The Ten Stages overview walks through the Database's lifecycle from Diagnose to Adapt, with a brief for each stage; topic briefs follow one idea across departments, newest first. Every claim ties to an entry in the Database.

The ten stages

How a change actually lands, from Diagnose to Adapt
Overview · 10 stage briefs inside

The Ten Stages: How a Change Actually Lands

Why a change is a cycle, not an event: what each stage is for, what it hands the next, where changes usually break, and how to size the effort. All ten stage briefs open from here.

  1. 1Diagnose
  2. 2Define
  3. 3Prepare
  4. 4Learn
  5. 5Apply
  6. 6Verify
  7. 7Adopt
  8. 8Support
  9. 9Measure
  10. 10Adapt
6 sections · 2 figures · about 12 minutes, then a brief per stage

Topic briefs

Newest first · one idea, followed across departments
Solo practices · Engineering · Contractors · Quality

The Practice of One: Best Practices for a Solo Firm

For the engineer who is also the project manager and the office: a few procedures, a contractor system, hold points where work gets covered up, and a learning plan you'll keep.

6 sections · 1 figure · about 9 minutes Learning · Change · Projects · Software · AI

Folklore Field Guide: 40 Numbers to Stop Quoting

The famous statistics that didn't survive a trip to the source, what each one actually rests on, what to say instead, and five questions to check a number yourself.

6 sections · 4 tables · about 9 minutes Technology · AI · Knowledge · Legal

Before You Switch On the AI Assistant

A pre-launch checklist: governed sources, a gold-set test, citations and "not found", permissions and leakage, client contracts, and logs handled as people data.

6 sections · 1 figure · about 10 minutes Technology · Plants · Utilities · Projects

Go-Live Without the Hangover

Readiness you test rather than survey, a contingency for the system that runs wrong, five ticket classes, and a hypercare that ends on data instead of a date.

6 sections · 2 figures · about 10 minutes Safety · Projects · Cyber · Contracts · Plants

Avoiding Risk

Risk is mostly decided before anything goes wrong: base rates, controls where mistakes can't be undone, a way back, signals worth watching, and how to decide when it happens anyway.

6 sections · about 12 minutes All topic briefs

More briefs

  • 30-60-90 Roadmaps
  • Project Management for AEC
  • Strategic Learning
  • The Complete Onboarding Guide
9 topic briefs, newest first

How to use these guides

Each guide is written to be read in one sitting and used for months. The small codes after a paragraph, like CM-RSK-02, are Database entries: open one to see the sources, how strong the evidence is, and what we're not sure about. Where a guide says "practise it", the scenario named puts the same decision in front of you under pressure.

The guides are general guidance for professional teams, not legal, engineering or safety advice. Where a rule depends on your jurisdiction or contract, the guide says so.