Field note
When a readiness briefing should say wait
Adoption readiness briefings exist to protect calendars. A wait recommendation is not failure; it is a cheaper moment to pause than a stalled rollout.
We look for three blockers that rarely self-heal: unnamed artefact owners, training that covers features but not the closing or fulfilment calendar, and dual-running plans without an end date. Any one of these can justify a conditional-go; two usually mean wait.
In one HR application case near Gwangmyeong, the suite was ready, but contractor onboarding forms still required wet signatures stored outside any shared repository. Training would not have fixed that. The briefing listed the signature path as a prerequisite and postponed the go-live claim.
Sponsors sometimes want a softer word than wait. We keep the language plain so the written readiness note remains useful when memories of the workshop fade.