dvfr

A change-leadership workbook built on D x V x F > R: score dissatisfaction, vision, first steps, and resistance; find out which factor is actually stopping the change; sort stakeholders into the four buckets; build the coalition; commit to dated first steps; walk out with a one-page plan.

The model comes from How to be a Secret Agent (of Change).

Intended home: https://kindel.com/dvfr/.

Pages

Page	What it is
index.html	The workbook. Six tabs under a score that is always on screen.
guide.html	The model itself, for anyone arriving cold.

The workbook is tabbed so the score never leaves the screen. The change's name sits above the tabs, the score strip below it stays pinned while you scroll, and each tab holds the work that belongs to one term of the formula:

Tab	What is in it
D	Dissatisfaction: checks, score, and how to raise it
V	Vision: checks, score, how to raise it, and the vision drafting prompts
F	First steps: checks, score, how to raise it, the dated first steps, and the early wins
R	Resistance: checks, score, how to lower it, and the four stakeholder buckets
Coalition	The named leaders, counted against the bar of four
Export	The verdict in full, the plan, and copy / download / print / JSON

Each tab is deep-linkable (#dvfr-panel-r), the open tab is kept in the address bar so a reload returns to it, and the four bars in the score strip double as jump links.

Everything a leader types stays in localStorage in their own browser. There is no account, no backend, and nothing is uploaded. That matters here: people write candid things about named colleagues. The plan leaves the browser only when they choose to copy it, download it as Markdown or JSON, or print it.

Run

Needs a static file server because the content is loaded with fetch.

python3 -m http.server

Open http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Host configuration

The defaults are relative and resolved against the page, so serving the repo from any path — /, /dvfr/, a GitHub Pages project URL — works with no configuration as long as css/, js/ and data/ stay next to the HTML.

Override them when the assets do not sit beside the page, which is the case on a Hugo site that copies css/, js/ and data/ to the site root and renders the workbook markup in a page at /dvfr/. Set window.DVFR in an inline script before js/dvfr.js or js/dvfr-guide.js loads:

<script>
  window.DVFR = {
    content: "/data/dvfr.json",   // teaching content; default "data/dvfr.json"
    guidePage: "/dvfr/guide/",    // default "guide.html"
    workbookPage: "/dvfr/",       // default "index.html"
    storageKey: "dvfr-workbook"   // localStorage key for the saved workbook
  };
</script>

All three URLs are resolved against the current page, so relative values follow the mount and absolute ones point wherever you say.

Changing storageKey orphans any workbook already saved under the old key, so pick one and leave it alone.

Content

All teaching copy lives in data/dvfr.json and is rendered by both pages, so the workbook and the guide cannot drift apart. Edit the JSON, not the JavaScript, to change:

• factors — the four definitions, the help text, the 0 / 5 / 10 score anchors, the diagnostic checks, and the plays offered when that factor is the weak one.
• buckets — the four stakeholder buckets, their definitions, and the priority that drives the attention order (Non-Supportive, Reluctant, Supporter, Opposed).
• verdicts — the copy for each band.
• coalition — the target number of senior leaders and the commitment states.
• vision_prompts, first_steps, bucket_warnings, guide — the rest of the prose.

Adding or removing a factor's checks changes what a full checklist suggests as a score, since the suggestion is just the fraction checked, scaled to 10.

The scoring

D, V, and F multiply, so any one of them at zero zeroes the whole left side; the workbook treats that as a hard stop rather than a low number. To compare that product against a single resistance score, it takes the cube root — the geometric mean — which puts the change force back on the same 0-10 scale as R and preserves the zero property. The raw D x V x F product is shown next to it.

Force minus resistance	Verdict
any of D, V, F is 0	Dead stop
0 or less	Stalled
up to 2	Fragile
up to 4.5	Moving
more than 4.5	Unstoppable