Preparing For Your Go/No-Go Meeting

We’re all familiar with a Go/No-Go meeting – the event whereby key personnel sit around a table and give the “okay” to proceed to activation. This is an extremely important milestone, and you want to make sure that everyone is truly ready. When your people give you the thumbs up, you want to feel confident that they are basing their answer on firsthand analysis with total confidence that their application, team, or technical aspect of the activation is ready to go.

Atlanticon suggests preparing a bound document well in advance that requires that all Team Leaders and other personnel responsible for facets of the project, sign off for their areas.  Circulate it early so there are no surprises.

Schedule a preliminary Go/No-Go meeting at least 30 days prior to your final meeting, performing a verbal survey of everyone’s readiness at that time. Pose the question, “If you were expected to sign this today, could you? If not, then what do you need to do in the next 30 days to turn it around?”  
Be prepared to deal with someone who may refuse or be reluctant to sign. Will you require that they sign with conditions? What action will/can you take at this late stage?

Conducting these meetings in a large room with the document being passed around to all signers gives this event the importance that it deserves!  Above all, you want to activate a system that is SAFE for the patients. The purpose of a Go/No-Go call is to do the right thing. If someone truly can’t be ready, and their situation makes for a dangerous future, then you must make the tough call.

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