FORGE TEMPER
Stage-gate plan strengthening tool
FORGE TEMPER challenges and strengthens the delivery plan through initiation, requirements and design, helping teams test whether the plan remains credible before moving towards build.
Project managers, programme managers, PMO leads, delivery leads, sponsors, assurance teams and governance boards
PRINCE2, PM², MSP, Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid
Challenge and strengthen delivery plans through initiation, requirements and design using updated evidence, risks and assumptions.
FORGE TEMPER is the stage-gate strengthening component of the FORGE Logic™ ecosystem.
It is used as the initiative matures through initiation, requirements and design, up to the point where the team is preparing to move towards build or delivery execution.
TEMPER does not create the delivery plan from scratch. That is ANVIL’s role. TEMPER tests whether the current plan remains strong enough based on the evidence now available. It helps identify where assumptions have changed, risks have matured, dependencies have become clearer or earlier confidence needs to be revised.
Plans often become stale between governance points.
A plan may have been credible at initiation, but by the end of requirements or design the evidence may have changed. Scope may be clearer, dependencies may have shifted, risks may have materialised and delivery confidence may need to be amended.
TEMPER helps teams avoid carrying an outdated plan forward simply because it has already been approved.
TEMPER challenges the current delivery plan against updated initiative evidence.
It reviews changes in requirements, design, risks, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, planning confidence and stage-gate evidence. It helps identify whether the plan should proceed, be amended, be re-baselined through ANVIL or be escalated for governance attention.
TEMPER produces stage-gate readiness and plan-strengthening evidence.
The output may include readiness observations, changed assumptions, confidence movements, plan weaknesses, recommended amendments, unresolved risks and signals that ANVIL should be used again to re-baseline the plan.
That evidence becomes part of the organisation’s delivery intelligence layer.