Re-planning Sample Clauses

Re-planning. Description Re-planning is typically a result of an assessment that the situation has changed sufficiently from expected (originally planned for) that a new course of action is required. This may be because the decision maker now sees that certain planning assumptions are no longer true, or that the situation is not what the decision maker originally understood it to be, either because the initial assessment was incomplete or wrong, or because the situation has changed significantly, thus impacting the original plan. This is the essence of adaptation to changing events. Re-planning to various degrees is typical in dynamic, complex environments. Typically, there is a realization that the current goal is unachievable by the current course of action. So, either the course of action must be adapted, or new goals must be identified. In some circumstances the goals are rarely well defined. The processes of re- planning are dependent on a shift in SA, an understanding of feasible goals in the current situation, an understanding of the constraints on action (including situational, legal, resources, time, etc.), balancing prioritization of conflicting goals, and an assessment of the amount of friction that will be caused by changing the plan at this point and whether there is time and the communication channels necessary to effect the new plan without causing more trouble than just sticking with the original plan. FR Scenario Example The search and rescue team are on the second floor of a four storey apartment complex. They are trying to get to the fourth floor where someone had reported hearing a crying woman. Before they went into the building they had looked at the sketch of a floor plan done by a resident of the apartment complex. They had decided to go up the back stairwell because the front of the building had already been burning for some time. They arrive on the second floor only to find that the stairs to the third floor have collapsed and there is no way through. They realize that they cannot get to the fourth floor from up this stairwell and cannot access it from the front stairwell. They radio the incident commander (IC) that they have to come out in order to come up with a new plan. As they descend, to the ground floor they notice a maintenance elevator that the resident had not mentioned. They tell the IC that they are going to try to get up using the service elevator. He gives them the green light to try it.