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tool_id: WACK-TOOL-0007
concept_id: WACK-CONCEPT-0013
playbook_content_id: WACK-CONTENT-0056
status: draft
technical_review: pending
artifact_type: working_worksheet
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# Exception Exit Planner

> Turn recurring renewal into measurable closure mechanics.

**Expected output:** A dependency-aware migration plan with exit conditions, tests, rollback, and decision ownership.  
**Working time:** 60 minutes  
**Derived from:** WACK-CONTENT-0056

## Working context

Organization / environment: __________________________________________  
Facilitator / owner: __________________________________________________  
Participants: _________________________________________________________  
Date: ____________________  Review trigger or next date: ______________

## 01 / Find — Reconstruct the current exception

Separate today’s constraint and boundary from the original story.

- [ ] **What exact constraint prevents the intended implementation today?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

- [ ] **Which systems, teams, services, controls, or customers now consume the excepted behavior?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

## 02 / Map — Create the exit chain

Give every dependency a migration and decision path.

- [ ] **What observable condition shows each consumer is ready to migrate or retire?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

- [ ] **Who owns implementation, test, rollback, acceptance, and closure for each step?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

## 03 / Explain — Define the decision

Make closure and disciplined renewal equally explicit outcomes.

- [ ] **What residual risk and operating control remain during the exit period?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

- [ ] **What new information would justify closure, narrowing, or renewal?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

## 04 / Reduce — Shrink the boundary

Prevent growth and migrate in bounded groups.

- [ ] **Can new adoption be frozen immediately?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

- [ ] **Which consumer group can move first with a reversible test and clear success measure?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

## 05 / Prove — Close or renew with evidence

Require more than a changed calendar date.

- [ ] **What results demonstrate that exit conditions were met or remain unmet?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

- [ ] **What current approval, remaining dependency, revised boundary, and next decision date are retained?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

## Completion check

- [ ] Every current consumer appears in the plan.
- [ ] Exit conditions are measurable.
- [ ] Renewal requires current evidence and a new decision.

## Decision and next action

Decision: _____________________________________________________________  
Owner: __________________________  Due date: ___________________________  
Evidence or artifact location: ________________________________________

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