INSTRUMENT 16 · ROADMAP GENERATOR

What do I do on Monday, and in ninety days?

A staged plan derived from the guideline's sequence: legitimacy, evidence, decision, controlled production, reuse and durable capability. Think of it like a training plan for a first marathon — get the basics organized first, prove one thing works end to end, then reuse what worked instead of starting over for each new goal.

Example: a team that jumps straight to "6 months: one controlled capability" without first doing the 30-day legitimacy work (naming an owner, publishing a data-use rule) usually ends up rebuilding that foundation mid-project anyway — the stages below are ordered because each one is what the next one depends on.

30 DAYS

Become legitimate and specific

Publish a data-use rule, name the process owner, measure the manual baseline and choose one use case.

OWNER: Quality transformation lead

31–60 DAYS

Build evidence, not excitement

Create a golden reference set, classify the risk and remediate the highest evidence gaps.

OWNER: Quality transformation lead

61–90 DAYS

Decide honestly

Evaluate against pre-agreed criteria and choose stop, improve, restrict, pilot or release.

OWNER: Quality transformation lead

6 MONTHS

One controlled capability

Put one bounded Level B capability into production with qualification, monitoring and human acceptance.

OWNER: Quality transformation lead

12 MONTHS

Reuse the foundation

Reuse governance, knowledge, identity and logging for the second and third applications.

OWNER: Quality transformation lead

3 YEARS

Build the durable asset

Make connected evidence, competence and controlled learning part of the normal APQP workflow.

OWNER: Quality transformation lead

VALUE AT STAKE

What is the 6-month horizon actually worth, in hours?

Same per-unit economics as Instrument 01's verification ratio — production time versus verification time — applied to the volume this plan's controlled capability would touch. This is a planning estimate, not a business case; the export from Instrument 01 covers the assumptions and sensitivity properly.

FREED PER YEAR

300 hrs

18,000 at the stated hourly rate

WHY THIS INSTRUMENT EXISTS

A generic implementation timeline ignores where an individual organisation actually stands, which produces advice that is either already done or years premature.

Generating the next action from the organisation's own maturity position and its own use-case portfolio is what keeps the roadmap an evidence-backed sequence rather than a template borrowed from somewhere else.

§12.1 First thirty days§4.4 Sizing the first pilot§12.3 Twelve months: repeatable capability, not a hero project