Objectives & Scope
Define what the exercise is meant to test and who needs to be involved, before you start building out the timeline.
Exercise Support
Cadence lays out objectives, timeline, and the sequence of events controllers will introduce, all in one place your evaluation team can follow along with as the exercise runs.
Cadence is where an exercise starts. Set the objectives you're testing for, build out the timeline, and sequence the injects controllers will introduce, with everything visible to the evaluation team from day one, not just the people running the room.
Define what the exercise is meant to test and who needs to be involved, before you start building out the timeline.
Lay out the full schedule of the exercise from kickoff to hotwash, in one shared plan.
Plan the order and timing of the events controllers will introduce as the exercise unfolds.
Give your evaluation team the same plan to follow along with as the exercise runs, not a static document from before it started.
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