Tender
Contract award: Friday. Site starts: Monday.
Sam's journey · Winning the work (tender) · Story 6
The plan for day one
Everyone agrees mobilisation matters. Nobody plans it until it's happening.
The wrong way
Tender
Sam: Where's the mobilisation plan?
Tom: "We'll do it as we go."
Get readyGet ready: Week one…
Week one
No shared system, no training, no access.
Get readyGet ready: Week three…
Week three
The system goes live, halfway through being set up.
DesignDesign: Week six…
Week six
Sam writes the mobilisation plan, as a record of what went wrong.
Win the workWin the work: The next job…
The next job
Tom: Mobilisation plan? We'll do it as we go.
Sam opens last job's plan, the one written in week six. Same again, then.
A striped band means the story jumps ahead. Its colour, and the word on the card, say which stage of the job it lands in.
The plan for day one was written in week six.
Find out what Sam should have doneSam's Lesson 6 · The plan for day one, then the same story done the right way.