Bill Canady walks through a MOID conversion process: present your understanding to the project chair, then create a one-page agreement with target outcome, timeline, required data, five assumptions, and three unknowns. Both parties sign within 14 days. Without it, you get downstream fiction.
Step 2, run the MOIT conversion with your chair. Structured session, not a hallway chat. You bring your reconstruction. You say, here's what I think you underwrote. Here's what the 2 means I have to deliver. Tell me where I'm wrong. Almost nobody has this conversation. It'll be one of the most valuable hours of your tenure and cost you a calendar invite. Step 3, one page, sign. I like to get it signed. Do you have to? No, but you need to know everyone's on board. There's the target, the timeline, the data to the sponsor's clock. There's not your fiscal year. 5 assumptions named and owned, 3 unknowns declared upfront. You sign it, your chair acknowledges it. That's the last part is where everybody skips, and it's the part that matters. An unsigned number is a conversation. A signed number is a contract, and you want to be the one that wrote it. If this number is wrong, everything downstream is fiction. That's why it's first and why it's 14 days instead of 90.
