Stage 4 of 10 · Design and release
Scaffold
Is the shape of the whole package right?
- Purpose
- Shape every deliverable as headings only.
- Defining artefact
- Skeletons of every deliverable
- Exit gate
- Structure approved
- Failure it prevents
- Rewriting finished content to fix its order
Scaffold shapes every deliverable as headings only: the learner guide, the assessment tool, the session plan, the trainer notes. Reviewers judge the shape of the whole package before anyone writes a paragraph.
What happens
- Draft the skeleton of each deliverable: sections, sequence, where each task and activity sits.
- Carry the mapping matrix into the skeletons, so each heading already knows which descriptors it serves.
- Review the package as a whole for order, load and duplication.
At the gate, ask
- Does the sequence build skills in an order a learner can follow?
- Is any section serving no descriptor, or any descriptor without a section?
- Would changing the order later mean rewriting finished content?