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In general, we can start testing as soon as we have a structure to test – either a text dump of our existing site’s IA, or the new IA ideas we’ve been playing with. We’ll also need time to create “find it” tasks that exercise our structure(s), and time for the overhead of setting up the tree tests.

Here’s a sample timeline for planning tree tests:

•  table showing high-level schedule

Note that most of the effort comes in preparing the first test. That’s because subsequent iterations largely reuse what we did in the first round – the only thing that needs more work is the tree structure itself.

For more on timelines, see Documenting our plan in Chapter 4typical high-level timeline for 3 rounds of tree testing (testing the existing tree, testing our new trees, then testing our even-better-with-revisions “final” tree):

If we’re just planning 1 or 2 rounds of testing, it should be easy to take this and cut it down to what is needed.

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