Review it before it goes out

A person approves the thinking behind a deck or a document, and a person approves the finished piece.

01Why it is worth doing

A mistake is cheapest to fix at two moments: before the thinking is written up, and before the work leaves the building. Somebody reads it at both.

02How you get there
  1. For a presentation or a document, approve the thinking first. You read the objective and the narrative before a single word is composed. Where Gyrium cannot support a point, it says so on the point itself and offers to use what you have, fall back to a weaker claim it has already written, or drop the point. It does not invent one. Attach the source that holds what the point needs, and the point counts as answered: the slide is written from it once you approve.
  2. Read the composed piece as your reader will see it, in your brand. A deck opens on its first slide.
  3. Flag anything that is wrong, section by section or slide by slide, and only what you flagged is rewritten.
  4. Approve one section at a time, or all of it at once.
  5. A check that would stop the sign-off is outlined in amber on its slide. If you try to sign with one open, Gyrium lists it with Go to slide, which takes you straight there, with the block that needs the fix already open when the check names one.
  6. Signing records who approved, what they confirmed and exactly what they signed. Change the content afterwards and the sign-off goes stale on its own.
  7. Nothing is published or shared until someone with the right to approve has checked it and signed it off. Signing off is accepting it as checked. Downloads, exports and presenting stay available as working copies. Sign-off is never automatic.
Gyrium, full screen with the menu on the left. A deck's narrative, with its sections listed on the left. The Narrative arc chart is picked out, showing how the emphasis builds to the peak. The callout reads: Approve the thinking before a word is written.
Step 1A deck, Narrative · The narrative, before the slidesDemo: a fictional cardiovascular research institute, with simulated figures.
Gyrium, full screen with the menu on the left. A deck in review, on slide 9 in the section The Data. The live render of the slide is picked out: four figures for hospital stay and readmission, labelled as a simulated cohort. The callout reads: Read each slide as your reader will see it.
Step 2A deck, Review, one slide · A slide as the reader sees itDemo: a fictional cardiovascular research institute, with simulated figures.
Gyrium, full screen with the menu on the left. A document in review, its outline on the left and its cover on the right. The flag on the first section is picked out. The callout reads: Flag what is wrong; only that part is rewritten.
Step 3A document, Review · Flag a sectionDemo: a fictional cardiovascular research institute, with simulated figures.
Gyrium, full screen with the menu on the left. The same document in review. Two controls are picked out: the tick on the first section, with the callout Approve one section, and Finish review at the top of the outline, with the callout or all of it at once.
Step 4A document, Review · Approve a section, or finish the reviewDemo: a fictional cardiovascular research institute, with simulated figures.
Gyrium, full screen with the menu on the left. A deck being signed off. The dialog Sign off with errors outstanding is picked out: one check, an error, reading The closing slide names somebody to answer the ask, and carries no email or phone for them, with Go to slide 22 beneath it. The callout reads: A check that would stop the sign-off takes you straight to its slide.
Step 5A deck, Review, signing off · A check that stops the sign-offDemo: a fictional cardiovascular research institute, with simulated figures.
Watch this step
See it done.

Reading the composed deck slide by slide, then signing it off, including a check that holds the sign-off until someone looks.

From the walkthrough, 11:06 to 14:22. The whole film, 18:20
What this uses

See it hold your own work.

The pilot takes a small number of organizations at a time. Bring what you already have.