Good news! You have been asked to represent your organization at the annual Healthcare Facilities
Planning conference in Hawaii. Your specific assignment is to attend a presentation by Ray Dufresne on
best practices for capital planning and, when you return, to tell your boss which of Dufresne's practices
you think is most essential for ensuring that your organization's capital plan will be successful.
After reading Chapter 2 of Simplifying the Complex : A Guide to Transition and Activation Planning for
Healthcare Construction Projects, identify the best practice that you think is most essential for ensuring
that an organization's capital plan will be successful, and explain why you think it is most essential.
Support your discussion with evidence-based resources, written using APA format.
Perhaps the most essential element in a plan of success Is having a detailed timeline. One form of
achieving a successful project is through a Transition and Activation Planning project plan. A Transition
and Activation Plan includes a project schedule and timeline, a committee structure, committee charter,
stakeholder roles and responsibilities, project-specific resource planning, communication management
tools, risk mitigation plans, and issue management plans (Guzman et al., 2020). The timeline is especially
important, and must be updated monthly to keep fluidity and make sure that stakeholders can adjust
their contributions accordingly to meet deadlines.
