The Workbook Books
The workbook’s documents organized into eighteen topic books, each framed Why / What / Who / How
The Modernization Workbook organized as eighteen topic books. Each book consolidates the workbook’s pages on one topic into an ordered, footnoted reading sequence with a Word edition and a 15-minute presentation.
The Workbook Books
The workbook grew as separate whitepapers, guides, series and case studies. The books reorganize that material by topic. Each book opens with one question (its Why), then covers What changes, Who owns it, and How to do it. Every external claim is checked against a primary source and footnoted, diagrams follow one house style, and each book has a Word edition and a 15-minute narrated presentation. When a book is built, the pages it replaces move to the repository’s archive/ folder and their old addresses forward to the new chapters.
| Book | Topic | Opening question | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| B00 | Orientation & Program | Why modernize, and why now? | Planned |
| B01 | The Transformation Arc: Client-Server to Hybrid Cloud | Why is modernization so hard? | Planned |
| B02 | Identity & Directory: AD to Entra ID | Why does identity matter? | Draft |
| B03 | HR-Driven Identity & Lifecycle | Why should HR, not IT, decide who exists? | Draft |
| B04 | Access & Privilege | Why is every access decision a policy decision? | Draft |
| B05 | Devices & Endpoints: GPO to Intune and Arc | Why can’t Group Policy come to the cloud? | Draft |
| B06 | Data Platform: SQL Server Identity | Why is the database where legacy authentication hides? | Draft |
| B07 | PKI & Certificates | Why do certificates outlive every migration? | Draft |
| B08 | DNS, DHCP & IPAM | Why is DNS now the control plane? | Draft |
| B09 | Network & Transport | Why does physics decide the architecture? | Planned |
| B10 | Cloud Boundary & Landing Zone | Why does the authorization boundary decide what you can use? | Planned |
| B11 | Zero Trust & Assessment | Why is Zero Trust a whole-agency property, not a product? | Planned |
| B12 | Security Operations & Telemetry | Why can’t you defend what you can’t see? | Planned |
| B13 | Governance, Drift & Evidence | Why does compliance decay the day after the audit? | Planned |
| B14 | Federal Compliance & Authorization | Why does every control need proof, not a promise? | Planned |
| B15 | Compliance Automation & Day-2 Operations | Why does modernization succeed or fail at the help desk? | Planned |
| B16 | People: Training & Education | Why do people, not tools, close the gap? | Planned |
| B17 | AI Identity Governance | Why do AI agents need identities and owners? | Planned |