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Worked Example: Adopting the Library into a Running Programme

This walkthrough follows one fictional organization from cloning the library through its first year of operating a governance programme, showing the file-by-file decisions an adopter makes at each stage. It is the companion to docs/worked-example.md, which walks the opposite direction (converting a draft into a library artefact): that example is for contributors, this one is for adopters. It does not restate the adopter tooling. It references docs/template-quickstart.md, docs/template-startup-roadmap.md, docs/template-implementation-roadmap.md, docs/decision-tree.md, and docs/adopter-guide.md at each step, and shows how they fit together for a single concrete adopter.

Type
Guide
Version
1.0.2
Date
2026-10-24
Owner
Governance Library Maintainer
Approving authority
Governance Library Maintainer
Classification
Public
Confidentiality
Public
Category
Documentation
Review frequency
Annual and upon material change to the adopter guide or the adoption tooling
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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Outline

  • The adopter
  • Step 1: Clone or fork
  • Step 2: Copy the Day-1 six-artefact floor
  • Step 3: Substitute roles and identifiers
  • Step 4: Phase 1 (days 1 to 90), reach the floor
  • Step 5: Phase 2 (days 91 to 180), operationalize and add AI
  • Step 6: Year-1 close and tracking upstream
  • Common pitfalls
  • Summary

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