Your Next 90 Days
The capstone was the finish line of the program and the starting line of everything else. The riskiest moment for your investment is not week one — it is week six, when the facilitators are gone, the novelty has worn off, and the pilot either becomes how work is done or quietly reverts. These 90 days decide which.
Days 1–30: run the review you already scheduled
The capstone left with a 30-day review on the calendar and a stop condition agreed in advance. Hold it exactly as designed: baseline against scorecard, then one of three decisions — expand to more users or cases, revise and re-pilot, or stop and reclaim the effort. Record the decision and the evidence. This first review sets the culture: teams that see honest reviews keep proposing workflows; teams that see zombie pilots stop bothering.
Days 30–60: the second workflow
The second workflow is where the program pays compound interest, because the method is now cheap: your team already knows how to pick a bounded candidate, record a baseline, write the target sentence, and test before launch. Reuse the worksheets — opportunity inventory, workflow packet, scorecard — from the Resources page. A department's second workflow typically ships in a fraction of the first one's time; that acceleration, not the first pilot, is the real return on these 53 hours.
Pick it the same way as the first: valuable, bounded, testable. Resist the temptation to jump to the sensitive or sprawling process just because the first one worked.
Days 60–90: make it an operating rhythm
Three light structures keep momentum without creating a bureaucracy:
- A workflow registry. One shared page listing every live workflow: owner, scorecard, last review, next review. If it is not on the page, it is not governed — that rule keeps shadow automation from creeping back.
- A champions cadence. The champions group from your rollout plan meets monthly: one demo of a working workflow, one honest post-mortem, friction collected for the owners. An hour, not a committee.
- A proposal path. Anyone with a candidate workflow fills the opportunity-inventory sheet and brings it to the cadence. The pipeline of ideas is now permanent — the program just made the first pass through it.
When to reopen the lessons
The course pages stay available, and they are written to be reread at the moment of need: the agentic workflows lesson before you build your second agent, the MCP lesson before any new connector, the rollout lesson before every expansion decision. Rereading a 5-minute page at the right moment beats remembering it from week three.
Definition of done
The 30-day review happened and its decision is recorded, a second workflow is in flight, and the registry, cadence, and proposal path exist with named owners.