One page per clause
The guidance in our words, the evidence a reviewer asks for, the common gaps and what to do before the second edition lands.
Open the registerA twelve-week path to the record
The plan below is the order the guidance expects. It is a default, not a promise: a small organization can compress it and a large one will extend it. The dates are relative to your start, and the planning date of 15 February 2027 is an estimate for the edition, not a deadline for you.
The page adds the calendar dates for week 1 and week 12. With JavaScript off, the relative labels still work.
| When | Clause | What is produced | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Before the first workshop | Clause 1 and the citation audit | Scope note, entity and objectives; every contract, policy and tender citation with its edition | Programme lead |
| Week 1 | Clause 4.1 and 4.2 | Seven-principle session; mandate, forum, decision rights and resource envelope | Executive sponsor |
| Week 2 | Clause 5.2 | Purpose, values and the decisions that use them; alignment with objectives and reward | Chief executive |
| Week 3 | Clause 5.3 | Context register with owners and implications; relationship map | Strategy lead |
| Week 4 | Clause 5.4 | Role and authority map, deputies, and a decision exercise without the executive team | Operations lead |
| Week 5 | Clause 5.5 | Culture diagnosis, two behaviours to strengthen, one system change | HR director |
| Week 6 | Clause 5.6 | Knowledge map and the new-user information test | Knowledge lead |
| Week 7 | Clause 5.7 | Core service resource map, single points of failure and acceptable service levels | COO |
| Week 8 | Clause 5.8 and Annex A | Discipline map and three seam protocols | Programme lead |
| Week 9 | Clause 5.9 | Criteria, measures, review rhythm and change log | Performance lead |
| Week 10 | Clause 5.10 | Change register and a protect-and-adapt decision | Strategy lead |
| Week 11 | Clause 6.1 and 6.2 | Baseline, gap register and top management decision on each significant gap | Programme lead |
| Week 12 | Clause 6.3 and 6.4 | Monitoring map, review agenda and the two-page board report | Programme lead |
Print this page for the project wall. The paid kit carries the same plan with an editable date, an owner column and a status column per line.
The citation audit comes first because a transition you cannot see is one you cannot plan. The principles and the mandate come next because the attributes need a forum that can decide. The purpose and context follow because they tell the organization what it is protecting and what is changing. The resources and disciplines come before the baseline because the baseline is only useful if it is measuring a real programme. The evaluation comes last because it tests the design, and the monitoring comes after the baseline because it needs something to compare against.
THE RULES THIS IS BUILT FROM
Read from the real rules, not invented
Every clause answer on this site points to the official clause behind it, so you can check any line yourself. The register holds 41 records, 174 evidence lines and 123 common failure lines. The revision dates come from the ISO record, one national member body record and one reseller record. The clause substance comes from ISO 22316:2017, the published edition in force.
21 CLAUSE RECORDS
20 DISCIPLINES
Annex A, clearly labelled
Annex A is informative and names twenty management disciplines. Each page says so, because a finding cannot rest on guidance alone.
Open the annexONE STAGE RECORD
No invented date
Stage 50.00 is recorded on 6 July 2026. The planning date is an estimate and is labelled wherever it appears.
Read the recordThe FDIS text is not public and is not reproduced. The clause record covers the 2017 edition. No clause-level change in the FDIS is claimed. Where the public record is silent, the page says so.