S77 / preparation-before-delivery

Preparation before delivery

What must be prepared before the delivery period starts?

Preparation is real work with its own scope, timing and agreement; it must not disappear inside the delivery promise.

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The audience change

Before

The reader assumes delivery begins immediately or that all preparatory work is implicitly included.

After

The reader can distinguish readiness work, delivery phases and the conditions for moving between them.

A fictional mobile-library pilot needs route access, a staffed rota and lending rules agreed before its delivery trial starts.

Fictional teaching scenario, not observed results or an approved operating plan. Phase widths are ordinal, not elapsed time. The example specifies no fee or service duration. Any later dated version needs consistent spans and a new review.

What carries the story

Headline: Prepare before the trial starts.

Substance: The preparation boundary remains visible, while the three lanes distinguish a prerequisite, the main service and continuous coordination.

Closing beat: Agree readiness and preparation costs before delivery begins.

Copy says: Preparation is real work with its own scope, timing and agreement; it must not disappear inside the delivery promise.

The diagram adds: Phase-aligned bars make a readiness-only lane, delivery-only lane and continuous support visibly different; each bar also names its phase range.

Together: The reader can distinguish readiness work, delivery phases and the conditions for moving between them.

Place it in an argument

Establish first: Agree objectives, scope, responsibilities and what readiness means.

Then: Resolve the preparation agreement and approve the start condition before scheduling delivery.

Possible next headline: Approve the readiness check before setting a delivery start.

Conditional route: If the readiness condition is unmet, shift the delivery start explicitly; do not silently consume the delivery window.

Choose this treatment deliberately

S77 phase grid and spanning workstreams, with an explicit readiness boundary and text phase labels on every bar.

Alternative: S89 Chronology Allows more explanation of each milestone, but loses the overlap between continuous support and delivery. Use when event sequence is the main question.

Three ordinal phases in these examples; repeatable workstreams have explicit start and end phases.

Required evidence

A readiness definition and decision owner.
A bounded delivery window distinct from preparation.
Agreement about preparation cost and scope.
Actual spans for every proposed workstream.

Must survive

Preparation precedes delivery and is not automatically free.
Phase labels and bars use one consistent time basis.
Continuous support differs from a one-off launch activity.
A plan does not establish acceptance or completed delivery.

A poor fit when

A critical-path schedule needing task-level dependencies.
Unequal-duration phases shown as equal elapsed time without disclosure.
A hidden pre-start commitment.

Actual content slots

Slot	Contribution	Count
eyebrow	Identify this as fictional teaching material.	1
headline	State the communication point and its relevance.	1
closing	Land the implication or prepare the next unit.	1
qualification	Keep evidence status and material limitations visible.	1
phases	Ordered preparation and delivery phases, not equal durations.	3
lanes	Workstream, explicit phase range and bounded activity.	3
readiness	The condition that allows delivery to begin.	1

Use with AI

Portable adaptation brief

Use Spreads S77 / preparation-before-delivery for this communication job: Separate readiness work from the promised delivery window.
Read LLM_ENTRYPOINT.md and artwork-and-layout.md from the library root.
Layout: cases/sc-64f2c56a9dc84291b8090ffabe47357f/spread.html
Case and actual slot map: cases/sc-64f2c56a9dc84291b8090ffabe47357f/case.json
Guide: cases/sc-64f2c56a9dc84291b8090ffabe47357f/index.html
Counts, alternate instances and readiness: cases/sc-64f2c56a9dc84291b8090ffabe47357f/reuse.json
Storyboard: cases/sc-64f2c56a9dc84291b8090ffabe47357f/storyboard.md
Keep: Preparation precedes delivery and is not automatically free.; Phase labels and bars use one consistent time basis.; Continuous support differs from a one-off launch activity.; A plan does not establish acceptance or completed delivery.
Before: Agree objectives, scope, responsibilities and what readiness means.
After: Resolve the preparation agreement and approve the start condition before scheduling delivery.
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