accelerate-site-activation

name	accelerate-site-activation
description	Sequence site selection, contracting, and start-up as the schedule's critical path to cut the activation delay. Reach for this when sites are slow.

Skill: Accelerate site activation

Activation is the schedule's long pole; delay can cost $0.6M–$8M/day.

Step 1 — Map the activation steps

Selection, contracting, regulatory/IRB, and start-up (§3 #4).

Step 2 — Find the bottleneck

Locate the step delaying first-patient-in.

Step 3 — Parallelize where possible

Overlap contracting and start-up tasks.

Step 4 — Recover the schedule

Build the activation-recovery plan against the timeline.

Output

An activation-step map, the bottleneck, a parallelization plan, and a schedule recovery.