The steps to defining your Specialist Pipeline are as follows: 1. Defining the business purpose for designing and implementing a Specialist Pipeline framework 2. High-level mapping of specialist roles within your organization 3. Validating the initial mapping via data collection from the organization 4. Defining the core specialist levels 5. Defining the core dimensions 6. Defining the performance expectations for each specialist level 7. Defining the required work values, time application, and skills for each specialist level
