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Your Level-Up Track — the Epic curriculum, re-sequenced to real ALDT work. 10h/week, fortnightly cycles.
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Orientation Analyst
Current rank
10h
Weekly budget
The cycles — click a status to advance it as you clear each one
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Orientation & Territory
Explain the territory in its own language
Week 1
ALDT anchorOnboarding: access, intros, confirm the live milestone.
ReadBABOK Intro + Key Concepts (BACCM); skim the Agile Extension horizons.
ProduceProfessional Territory Map, ALDT edition (BACCM applied to the project).
FeedbackLight: I sanity-check the BACCM mapping.
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Current State & Systems
Map what exists before proposing change
Weeks 2-3
ALDT anchorThe current-state assessment and its acceptance-criteria gaps.
ReadBABOK Strategy Analysis (Current State); Slack ch.1-2,6; Senge ch.2,4.
ProduceFive-lens current-state note for one asset class; an operating-system map.
FeedbackBoss fight: explain current state in 5 minutes with one visual.
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Stakeholders & Elicitation
Design discovery, not just hold meetings
Weeks 4-5
ALDT anchorSME interviews and workshops; the project runs on tacit knowledge.
ReadBABOK Elicitation & Collaboration; PMI elicitation; Agile Extension feedback loops.
ProduceElicitation plan + interview guide + workshop agenda for a real SME group.
FeedbackI review the guide before you run it; we debrief after.
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Capability & Future State
Move from fixing a process to building a capability
Weeks 6-7
ALDT anchorThe adopted capability model and the future-state blueprint.
ReadBABOK Future State / Change Strategy; Leading Digital capability chapters; Kourdi.
ProduceCapability gap map for one EAM sub-capability.
FeedbackBoss fight: a real capability, or a tool-request in disguise?
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Requirements & Traceability
Translate value into traceable requirements
Weeks 8-9
ALDT anchorIssues/opportunities register; requirements; tracing to value drivers.
ReadBABOK RADD + RLCM; PMI Requirements + Traceability; Brandenburg.
ProduceTraceability slice for one register item (finding to value driver).
FeedbackI audit the chain for gaps and unjustified leaps.
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Flow, Constraints & Improvement
See where work actually gets stuck
Weeks 10-11
ALDT anchorPain points, quick-value actions, EAM bottlenecks.
ReadGoldratt, The Goal; Slack ch.15-18 (improvement, lean, quality, risk).
ProduceConstraint analysis of one EAM workflow.
FeedbackBoss fight: true bottleneck, or a symptom of one upstream?
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Governance, Risk & Assurance
Keep change controlled without bureaucracy
Weeks 12-13
ALDT anchorGovernance, the value-risk model, ISO 55000 / QAO assurance, gated approvals.
ReadBABOK RLCM governance; PMI Traceability/Monitoring; PMBOK principles + AI appendix.
ProduceDecision-rights + risk/traceability matrix for one recommendation.
FeedbackI stress-test the accountability and governance gaps.
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Solution Evaluation & Benefits
Close the loop from delivery to outcome
Weeks 14-15
ALDT anchorThe benefits plan and the investment-case logic.
ReadBABOK Solution Evaluation; PMI Evaluation; PMBOK value chain; Knaflic/Duarte.
ProduceBenefits map for one roadmap initiative + a 7-slide executive narrative.
FeedbackBoss fight: present to me as an executive panel.
The weekly 10 hours
Sunday · 4hDeep block, inside your Weekly Review: ~1.5h read & extract · ~1.5h produce the real artefact · ~1h visualise + write from memory + prep the feedback ask.
Weekdays · 4h~1h touches: the comparative lens, retrieval practice, applying the idea to live work, capturing questions in your Inbox.
Fortnightly · 2hThe feedback checkpoint — bring the artefact to Claude: critique, gaps, and a boss-fight rehearsal before the real room.
Reading priority
| Role | Sources | How to read |
|---|---|---|
| spine | BABOK v3 · Agile Extension | Front to back, in cycle order — the project's own language. |
| core lens | Slack · Goldratt · Senge | Targeted chapters per cycle — EAM is operations, flow and systems. |
| supplement | PMI · PMBOK 8 · Brandenburg · Kourdi | Targeted lookups, not cover-to-cover. |
| on demand | Marr · Few · Knaflic · Duarte | Activate when the work hits data/reporting. |
| deferred | Provost & Fawcett · Rewired · Leading Digital | Post-probation, or when a task earns it. |
A living plan — it shifts as the ALDT phases shift. Bring each artefact to Claude for the standing feedback loop; default is a hard read, as you asked.