Describe how you plan to use your time over the next month to investigate and gather information related to your project. This could involve interviews, observations, surveys, phone calls, the review of critical documents, etc. Explain what can be done to learn more about the problem you are trying to solve and how you plan on becoming an expert on both this topic and the setting in which the problem you want to solve exists.

Label the days of your plan (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3... Day 28). Outline what deliverables will be targeted each week.

A deliverable is a tangible product (e.g., locate and read the organization's Use of Force policy, review the process for investigating officer-involved shootings, evaluate the agency's critical incident management program, etc.). This represents your work plan and schedule of deliverables. By knowing which deliverables you need to collect, you will know what you need to gather and accomplish each week. The plan should be thoughtful, laser-focused, detailed, and scaffolded so that earlier pieces and deliverables support later pieces.

Evaluations Explain how your project is to be evaluated. Is your organization going to evaluate it? How? Community evaluation? What specifically will make your project a success, both to you and to others? In relation to the evaluation of your project by outsiders, describe who, what, when, where and how.