1. Planning
Careful planning is the first step in any project or task. This involves understanding the objectives, determining the timeline and budget, organizing resources, and creating a realistic plan of action. Planning also involves considering potential risks and mitigating factors that could affect the success of the project or task. To ensure successful completion, it is important to have a well-defined plan with clear steps and goals in place.
2. Preparation
Once the planning stage has been completed, preparation begins. This includes gathering all necessary resources, materials, tools, equipment, and personnel needed to complete the job at hand. It also requires ensuring that everything is ready before actually starting the project or task by double-checking to make sure all steps are accounted for and nothing has been forgotten.
3. Performance
After preparation is complete, it’s time to begin performing whatever needs doing. During this stage, focus should be placed on carrying out each step properly without cutting corners or skipping anything important. Attention should be given to accuracy as well as speed; mistakes can be costly so taking extra time to double-check results will save time in the long run whereas rushing may lead to errors that can take more effort and time to correct later on.
4. Proofing/verification
After completing a task or project it is important to go back through everything that was done to verify that everything was done correctly and according to plan. This includes reviewing any calculations made as well as code written; reading through documents; double-checking measurements taken; etc., and looking for any errors or discrepancies that might have been overlooked during performance stage of the process so any corrections can be made before submitting for final review/approval/publication if necessary.
5. Post-mortem
A post-mortem review helps identify what went right (or wrong) while working on a project or task so similar experiences can be avoided (or repeated) in future projects or tasks if possible/desired. The post-mortem should include evaluating how effective certain strategies were, determining whether certain techniques could have been applied better, identifying areas where improvements need to be made going forward and setting up systems for tracking progress more easily next time around etc.