Tools & Resources
Every tool here answers a specific question the work requires you to answer. No tool without a function. Each listing shows what it is for, who it is for, where it stands, and where its limits are.
What the readiness labels mean
Readiness labels tell you whether a tool is currently available, being developed, or planned. They are honest, not promotional.
Ready to use. Accessible now in self-guided format.
Being built or tested. May be available to pilot participants.
Defined and scheduled. Release is on the near horizon.
Planned but not yet in active development. Not available.
Build the Right Team
Tools that help you define what the team must be able to do before you decide who should be on it.
Team-Building V Canvas
A structured worksheet that walks through the Adaptive Work V specifically for team formation — from stakeholder mapping through function identification, architecture, and valid team design. Prevents the most common formation errors before they happen.
Function / Subfunction Guide
A reference guide for identifying and categorizing the required functions a team must perform — distinguished from roles, tools, and job titles. Helps teams stop selecting people based on availability and start selecting based on functional coverage.
Team Gap Analysis
A guided tool for identifying functional and cognitive gaps between what a team currently covers and what the work actually requires. Currently in early design. Not yet available for general use — do not use this listing as a substitute for the tool itself.
Map Stakeholders
Tools for identifying who is affected, who must be included, and who needs continuing access rather than symbolic representation.
Stakeholder Validity Canvas
A structured worksheet for mapping stakeholders before defining the work. Distinguishes users, maintainers, funders, approvers, resistors, and those who live with outcomes — and prompts for who is absent but needed for validation to be meaningful.
Stakeholder Access Map
An expanded tool for tracking stakeholder access patterns over time — who has been included, who has dropped off, and where the validation chain may have gaps. Not yet available for general use.
Stakeholder Representation Audit
A guided review for assessing whether current stakeholder representation is sufficient for the decisions being made. Designed for teams navigating equity, access, and participation. Planned — not yet in active development.
Think Better Together
Tools grounded in CAP-5 cognitive approach patterns — for making team thinking more visible, more intentional, and more equitably distributed.
Team Cognitive Access Map
A worksheet for assessing the cognitive approach coverage across a team — which approaches are reliably present, which are underrepresented, and what the coverage pattern suggests about team blind spots or imbalances. Based on CAP-5 dimensions.
CAP-5 Self-Assessment
A structured self-guided instrument for mapping your own cognitive approach preferences across all nine dimensions. Currently in development — available to pilot participants. Not yet available for general use.
Cognitive Partnering Guide
A structured guide for two people in a shared-leadership context — co-leaders, executive partners, or shared-decision couples — to use their CAP-5 profiles in deliberate cognitive division of labor. Planned. Not yet available.
Define the Work
Tools for moving from problem awareness to structured requirements — before selecting solutions, tools, or team members.
Adaptive Work V Canvas
A full-cycle worksheet applying the Adaptive Work V to any bounded work effort. Guides the user through need definition, function analysis, architecture, implementation planning, and validation criteria before starting the work.
Requirements Definition Worksheet
A structured prompt set for distinguishing requirements from preferences, assumptions, and wishful thinking — and for identifying constraints as carefully as the requirements themselves. In development.
Decision Documentation Template
A structured format for documenting key decisions — who was involved, what information was available, what was decided, and what was not decided. Designed to support validation and sustainment. Planned.
Navigate Conflict & Repair Work
Tools for addressing misalignment, structured disagreement, and breakdown in shared work — not therapy, and not a substitute for professional support when serious concerns are present.
Structured Disagreement Protocol
A conversation structure for teams navigating persistent disagreement — distinguishing disagreement about facts, requirements, functions, and values from disagreement about preferred solutions. Surfaces the real level of conflict.
Conflict Reframe Guide
A guided process for reframing interpersonal-seeming conflicts as cognitive or structural mismatches — and identifying what functional work the conflict is actually doing. In development.
Agreement Repair Worksheet
A structured tool for revisiting broken or unclear agreements — distinguishing agreements that failed because they were poorly formed from those that failed because conditions changed. Planned.
Test, Validate & Sustain
Tools for the right side of the Adaptive Work V — verifying that solutions were built correctly, validating that they solve the real problem, and ensuring they can be sustained in use.
Validation Checklist
A structured prompt set for distinguishing verification ("did we build it correctly?") from validation ("did we build the right thing?") — and for ensuring stakeholder voices are present in both. Most useful at the end of a bounded work effort.
Sustainment Planning Guide
A structured planning tool for ensuring that solutions can be used, maintained, and adapted after they leave the design and implementation phase. Addresses the most commonly skipped part of the V. In development.
Transition Readiness Assessment
A pre-transition tool for assessing whether a solution is ready to move from design into real-world use — including training, documentation, support structures, and stakeholder readiness. Planned.
Every tool in this index is intended to support shared work — not to evaluate, rank, exclude, or diagnose individuals. No tool here should be used as the basis for hiring, promotion, clinical assessment, compatibility scoring, or high-stakes decisions without the specific validation that would support such use. When in doubt, ask: is this tool being used to help the work, or to label the person? If it is the latter, stop.
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