Explicit item states
Unknown, proposed, assumed, incomplete, conflicting, under clarification, resolved, validated, rejected or blocked.
VALIDATE
Know what is settled, and what is still open.
Validation moves project items through an explicit lifecycle rather than a score. Every item carries a state, an owner, the evidence behind it and a next action, so the current position of the project is always legible to anyone joining it.
PROJECT STATEItem Lifecycle
discovery 54%HR transformationPayroll approvalValidatedLeave policyConflictingEmployee hierarchyIncompletePayroll integrationBlocked
Open itemsProject StateValidated items
0154%
Discovery readiness
023
Blocking items
03Validated
Objectives & current state
CAPABILITIES
What this stage of discovery actually does.
Built for this stage
of project discovery.
Each capability moves the project state closer to something a client can accept and a delivery team can start from.
CAPABILITIES04
STAGEVALIDATE
Evidence on every item
Each state links back to the conversation, document or decision it came from.
Blocking items surfaced
The items genuinely preventing progress are listed first, with the reason each is blocked.
Next actions, not dashboards
Each state opens the underlying project item, evidence or decision, and each action opens the work itself.
HOW IT WORKS
How this stage works.
01
Items classified
Every important project item is given an explicit state.
02
Evidence attached
Each state is traceable to where it came from.
03
Signed off
Items reach validated or approved with the responsible stakeholder named.