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Strategica Institute

Build an Expiring Release Forecast

A 15-minute, text-led course for bounding historical delivery evidence, exposing the governing constraint and defining when a release forecast must be replaced.

Free to audit

Course

3 lessons · About 15 minutes including private practice

Strategica Institute

Foundations of Modern Agile Practice

A source-led course in agile judgment: connect values to team practice, value delivery, flow, continuous improvement, and one small real-world experiment.

Free to audit

Course

28 lessons · About 4 hours 35 minutes active study, plus a week of capstone application

Strategica Institute

Kickoff from Problem to Backlog

A 15-minute, text-led course for exposing goal disagreement, grounding one user problem and seeding a deliberately incomplete Product Backlog.

Free to audit

Course

3 lessons · About 15 minutes including private practice

Strategica Institute

Run a Decision-Ready Review

A 15-minute course for separating product, user and organisational evidence, using confidence as a prompt, and closing with an owned decision.

Free to audit

Course

3 lessons · About 15 minutes including private practice

Strategica Institute

Scale Around Value Flow

A 18-minute course for diagnosing structural dependencies, testing a value-complete team boundary and governing the interfaces that remain.

Free to audit

Course

3 lessons · About 18 minutes including private practice

Foundations of Modern Agile Practice

Agile Beyond IT

Carry agile principles into a new domain while tailoring practices to its real work, constraints, and cadence.

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14 min · mixed · explainer

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AI as a Team Partner

Delegate preparation to AI while keeping value judgments, commitments, relationships, and accountability human.

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15 min · mixed · explainer

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Boards and Bottlenecks

Model the real workflow, expose queues and policies, and respond to bottlenecks by swarming rather than feeding them.

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7 min · mixed · explainer

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Durable and Distributed Teams

Preserve context through durable teams and make distributed work explicit through agreements, asynchronous updates, and one visible board.

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11 min · mixed · explainer

Foundations of Modern Agile Practice

Flow Over Velocity

Use WIP, lead time, cycle time, and throughput to discuss flow without turning velocity into a quota.

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9 min · mixed · explainer

Foundations of Modern Agile Practice

Kanban and Framework Fit

Compare Scrum's time-based cadence with Kanban's flow limits and choose a starting approach from the shape of the work.

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10 min · mixed · explainer

Foundations of Modern Agile Practice

Scrum in One Picture

Position Scrum within agile and explain its empirical loop of transparency, inspection, and adaptation.

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9 min · mixed · explainer

Foundations of Modern Agile Practice

The Four Values

Read the Agile Manifesto values as contextual trade-offs rather than absolute rules.

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9 min · mixed · explainer

Foundations of Modern Agile Practice

The Three Accountabilities

Distinguish the Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Developers by what each answers for and by common role violations.

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11 min · mixed · explainer

Foundations of Modern Agile Practice

Welcome and How This Works

Learn who the course serves, how to choose between equivalent formats, and the five principles that guide the course.

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7 min · mixed · explainer

Foundations of Modern Agile Practice

Wrap and Next Steps

Consolidate the course into five principles, five practical behaviors, and a route for continued learning.

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10 min · mixed · explainer

Foundations of Modern Agile Practice

Your First Agile Project

Run one modest empirical loop from outcome sentence through backlog, WIP-limited board, review, retrospective, and reflection.

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35 min · mixed · explainer

Run a Decision-Ready Review

Close the loop

Turn confidence concerns and outcome evidence into an owned decision and next evidence trigger.

Starter

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5 min · mixed

SimulationProject management & leadership

Strategica Institute

A Stakeholder Adds Scope Mid-Sprint

During Sprint 4 of the core platform API overhaul, a senior executive from Sales contacts the engineering team directly, demanding an urgent custom reporting endpoint to close a major prospective enterprise deal by Friday afternoon.

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TemplateProject management & leadership

Strategica Institute

Benefits realisation plan template

A practical workbook for defining benefits, baselines, owners, evidence, review points, and retirement conditions.

Reusable resource

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Excel workbook download

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Decision contract template

A concise template for recording the decision, authority, evidence, assumptions, expiry conditions, and review path.

Reusable resource

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Markdown download

TemplateProject management & leadership

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Escalation health diagnostic

A diagnostic for testing whether escalation routes are timely, trusted, evidence-based, and connected to decision rights.

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Markdown download

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FMAP course map

A compact map of the Foundations of Modern Agile Practice course structure and learning sequence.

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Markdown download

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FMAP disclaimer

The standing scope, non-affiliation, and limitations disclaimer for Foundations of Modern Agile Practice materials.

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Markdown download

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FMAP glossary

A quick reference to the core terms used throughout Foundations of Modern Agile Practice.

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FMAP learner guide

A learner-facing guide to navigating the Foundations of Modern Agile Practice course and its reflective activities.

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FMAP references

The reference list supporting Foundations of Modern Agile Practice learning materials.

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FMAP study guide

A structured study guide for revisiting the major concepts, trade-offs, and practice prompts in FMAP.

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Markdown download

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FMAP template pack

A downloadable pack of practical templates used to apply the Foundations of Modern Agile Practice concepts.

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Markdown download

TemplateProject management & leadership

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Project stop decision protocol

A protocol for deciding whether to continue, reset, pause, or stop a project using explicit evidence and authority.

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Markdown download

TemplateProject management & leadership

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Risk sensing review template

A review template for logging weak signals, testing their significance, and deciding what action or evidence is warranted.

Reusable resource

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Markdown download

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Acceptance criteria

Testable conditions that say when a piece of work is done enough to inspect.

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Agile

A movement and way of working that values people, usable results, collaboration, and responsiveness while using feedback to adapt under uncertainty.

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Alignment test

A structured comparison of participants' independently recorded views of a goal, user, problem or outcome, used to expose consequential disagreement before delivery choices are fixed.

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Anchoring

The tendency for an available starting value to influence a later numerical judgement, even when the final estimate is adjusted from that starting point.

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Backlog

An ordered list of work that a team can pull from as capacity allows.

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Backlog detail horizon

The point beyond which backlog items deliberately carry less detail because their priority, design and evidence may change before the team is ready to select them.

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Baseline

The approved version of scope, schedule, or cost used to compare actuals.

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Confidence prompt

A subjective rating followed by a request for the evidence, expectation or concern behind it; useful for opening discussion but not interchangeable with outcome or value measurement.

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Critical path

The longest sequence of dependent activities that determines the earliest finish.

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Decision-grade estimate

An estimate documented with its purpose, bounded scope, evidence basis, assumptions, uncertainty and review trigger so a named decision can be made without treating the forecast as a promise.

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Delivery observation window

The explicitly bounded set of completed-work observations used to inform a delivery forecast, including its dates, work definition, team context and known changes.

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Dependency demand

The coordination work created when delivery of a meaningful outcome requires another team, function or approval queue to act before value can move.

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Diagnostic signal

A defined observation or pattern that prompts investigation because the current process may no longer match its baseline, without by itself proving a cause or prescribing a response.

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Earned value

A measure of the work actually completed, expressed in the same units as the plan.

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Estimation divergence

A material difference between estimates that is retained and investigated for conflicting scope interpretations, hidden dependencies, alternative approaches or missing evidence.

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Feedback loop

A cycle that uses observed results to change the next action.

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Forecast adjustment decision

A recorded choice to retain or revise scope, date, investment or risk after changed evidence has been investigated and its effect on the forecast has been assessed.

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Forecast expiry

The declared point or trigger after which a forecast must be recalculated because delivery evidence, scope, capacity, cost or assumptions may no longer represent the decision context.

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Increment

A usable addition of value that can be inspected and potentially released.

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Milestone

A significant point used to review progress, not a chunk of work in itself.

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Outcome

A change in the world that the work is intended to produce for users or the organisation.

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Output

A deliverable produced by the work, which may or may not create the intended outcome.

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Product backlog

The ordered inventory of product work that a product owner keeps current.

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Project charter

A short authorising record of why a project exists, who owns it, and what success looks like.

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Reference item

A previously understood item used as a comparison point for relative sizing, with its scope and context kept visible so that comparison does not silently become a delivery forecast.

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Review decision contract

A declaration of the decision a review meeting must inform, the evidence required, the accountable decision-maker and the change that follows each plausible finding.

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Risk register

A living record of uncertain events, their effect, and the responses in play.

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Roadmap

A time-horizon view of intended outcomes, not a promise of a fixed feature calendar.

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Rolling-wave forecast

A forecast revised at declared checkpoints as actual cost, delivery evidence and changed assumptions become available, while preserving the basis of earlier versions.

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Stakeholder

A person or group who can affect, or is affected by, the work or its outcome.

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Timebox

A fixed duration that constrains work so learning happens on a predictable cadence.

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Uncertainty driver

A named assumption, dependency, novelty or information gap that could materially change a forecast and can be linked to a learning action or decision.

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User story

A short request for a product change written from a user point of view.

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Value-complete team

A team with enough skills, authority and operational access to deliver and learn from a meaningful slice of value without routine hand-offs across functional queues.

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Waterfall

A predictive approach in which work progresses through largely sequential phases based on substantial up-front definition.

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WIP limit

A cap on how much work may be in progress at once, used to expose delay and improve flow.

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