What’s inside the Standard Operating Procedure.
5 pages with real content in place. Rewrite them, reorder them, or add your own.
- 1Page 1A dark title block, the document control panel, purpose and scope
- 2Page 2Definitions of every term, and a roles and responsibilities table
- 3Page 3Steps 1 to 4, each with its owner, timing, tools and what done looks like
- 4Page 4Steps 5 to 8, through access, scheduling, handover and kickoff
- 5Page 5Three exceptions and their handling, the records kept, and the version history
When to use it.
Standard Operating Procedure is a controlled document for writing down a process so it runs the same way whoever does it. It covers client onboarding from the signed contract to the kickoff meeting in eight numbered steps, each with its owner, how long it takes, the tools it uses and what finished looks like. Around the steps sit the things that make a procedure usable: purpose and scope, definitions, a roles table, three common exceptions and their handling, the records kept, and a version history. Every name, date, number and tool is a tinted fill-in, so a studio can make it its own in one pass.
Made for
- Finance and accounts teams
- Operations managers
- In-house marketing and design teams
- Founders running their own back office
Make it yours in four steps.
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- Step 1
Fill in the title block: your studio name, the SOP number, the revision, the owner, the approver and the two dates.
- Step 2
Change the roles and tools to match your studio, then rewrite the eight steps around how you actually start a project.
- Step 3
Set the timings and the 'done when' tests so a new starter can follow the steps without asking anyone.
- Step 4
Add the exceptions you hit most often, then issue it and record the change in the version history.
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