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.
Planning provides direction for the plan, it “should be the true North” for the project from inception to
completion. The Transition and Activation Plan is developed by the team lead with recommendations
from the stakeholders, it is one of the most important responsibilities as a project manager.
There are various communication tools to include the Monthly Slide Deck, Project Roadmap, 90-day
Communication Tool and a Project Dashboard (Guzman et al., 2020).
The tool most essential for ensuring that out organization's capital plan will be successful would be the
Monthly Slide Deck which supports transparent communication, information can be shared with staff,
high traffic areas can display information spotlights. Monthly meetings focusing on general
announcements, project updates (photos, fun facts), follow up from last meeting, update in planning and
timeline, 90-day forecast, task list and next steps. (Guzman et al., 2020).
