Education Program

Building the mental model before teaching the tools

Before you can use a governed modernization approach, you have to see what it is. That is what the education program does. It is distinct from training: training teaches how to use and contribute; education builds the conceptual mental model that makes the training stick.

The learning arc

The program is not a feature tour. It builds a mental model in a specific order.

  1. Governance is a system, not a report or a checklist.
  2. Identity is the primitive. Everything else attaches to a canonical object.
  3. Maps replace inventories. Adapters produce one unified environment map, not a pile of spreadsheets.
  4. Provenance is non-negotiable. Every derived artifact names its canonical source and version.
  5. Modernization is a lifecycle, not a project. It runs end-to-end under change control.
  6. Drift is the feedback signal. The system knows when reality has diverged from the authoritative source and reports it in a classified, prioritized form.

A learner who internalizes those six ideas is ready to enter training and pick an operator or contributor track.

Formats

  • 90-minute facilitated walkthrough for program kickoff. One concept per ~10 minutes, with questions between.
  • Self-serve written path for anyone who cannot attend live. Sufficient on its own.
  • 45-minute auditor briefing — provenance, drift detection, and drift remediation only.

Companion pages

  • Training — the how, once the why is in place
  • Test plans — the catalog of what tests govern what

Cleaned extraction for project use.

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