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Components in the finished document
Second Opinion Review
An independent read of another party's plan or work, stating plainly what is sound, what is wrong, and what is missing.
Where This Sits
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Measured directly, not asserted
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Pieces that carry my judgment
This is a Diagnostics deliverable, which means it establishes what is true about the site now. It is the unit of scope: it can be commissioned on its own, priced on its own, and accepted on its own, whether or not anything else is bought alongside it.
It is not a package and not a retainer. It is one document with 5 components, and the list below is the whole of it.
What Is Inside It
Every component is listed with the one sentence that says what it is. They are grouped by how each one is produced, because the difference between a number a tool gave me and a number I decided matters more than most reports admit.
Judged
My reading of the evidence. This is the part you are actually paying for, and the part you are entitled to argue with.
- Severity-scored finding card
- One issue, stated with its evidence, its severity, and the likelihood it causes harm if left alone.
- Prioritised recommendation list
- Every recommendation in the order it should be acted on, with the reason for that order.
- Assumptions statement
- Every assumption the analysis rests on, named so a reader can challenge it.
- Method and scope statement
- What was examined, what was deliberately not, and with which tools and data ranges.
- Executive summary block
- The findings compressed to what a decision-maker needs, written to be read alone.