Evidence-Based Readiness
The core rule of evidence-based readiness: discussion informs the assessment; a controlled document, record, demonstration or physical inspection verifies it. An unavailable document remains an unverified finding.
What counts as evidence
Four forms of proof: controlled documents (decrees, approvals, plans under document control), official records (registers, minutes, certificates), live demonstrations (a machine operated safely, a system processing a real case), and physical inspections (a facility walked, measured and accepted).
Each piece of evidence carries an authority (who issued or approved it), a custodian (who controls the authoritative copy), and a verification status: pending, available, inspected, verified — or rejected.
The evidence register
A controlled evidence register links every critical claim to its proof: title, date, authority, custodian, location and verification status. It turns the readiness score from an opinion into an audited quantity — and it is itself a readiness criterion: no register, no verified data foundation.