Coursework & Training
Luminous Systems is a sequenced studio pathway where Product Owners, analysts, and emerging leaders learn to integrate agile delivery, design thinking, and business strategy - through the lens of The Aletheian Design Theory of Learning (ADTL).
Build a working understanding of agile frameworks, the Product Owner role, and how products translate strategy into measurable value for customers and the business.
- Lesson 1 & 1.1 — Agile fundamentals and mapping your first delivery cycle.
- Lesson 2 & 2.1 — Stakeholders, customers, and building a stakeholder value map.
- Lesson 3 & 3.1 — Product vision, outcomes, and 12-month roadmap storytelling.
- Lesson 4 & 4.1 — User stories, acceptance criteria, and story review practice.
- Lesson 5 & 5.1 — Backlog creation, prioritization, and MVP backlog build.
- Lesson 6 & 6.1 — Scrum ceremonies, sprint reviews, and retrospectives in action.
- Draft a product vision one-pager using ADTL-style visual hierarchy.
- Create a mini backlog and run a simulated refinement session.
- Role-play sprint review conversations with stakeholders.
- Explain the Product Owner’s responsibilities in agile teams.
- Write clear, testable user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Organize and prioritize a basic product backlog aligned to value.
- Completed product vision & roadmap artifact.
- Sample backlog with prioritized stories and Definition of Done.
- Reflection: “How I translate strategy into a first backlog.”
ADTL Alignment: LS 101 anchors the Product Owner role in ADTL by using visual narratives, pop-culture analogies, and structured layouts to make agile concepts concrete and memorable.
Move from team-level stories to systems-level awareness. Learn to map value streams, design services, and align cross-functional stakeholders around coherent product experiences.
- Lesson 1 & 1.1 — Mapping business systems and current-state value streams.
- Lesson 2 & 2.1 — Stakeholder alignment, expectation setting, and communication plans.
- Lesson 3 & 3.1 — Service design fundamentals and service blueprint creation.
- Lesson 4 & 4.1 — Working with UX, engineering, and business partners.
- Lesson 5 & 5.1 — Risks, dependencies, and constraint management.
- Lesson 6 & 6.1 — SLAs, ITSM practices, and support workflows as product touchpoints.
- Create a value stream map for a real or fictional product.
- Design a service blueprint showing key touchpoints and backstage processes.
- Build a stakeholder communication plan using ADTL-style visual framing.
- See products as services inside larger organizational systems.
- Identify and communicate dependencies and constraints.
- Collaborate effectively across UX, engineering, and operations teams.
- Completed systems/value stream map.
- Service blueprint for a key customer journey.
- Stakeholder alignment and communication plan.
ADTL Alignment: LS 201 uses cross-genre synthesis (journey maps, storyboards, blueprints) to help Product Owners visualize systems as narrative experiences rather than disconnected processes.
Orchestrate releases, define meaningful metrics, and scale agile practices across teams and programs while keeping value, risk, and governance visible.
- Lesson 1 & 1.1 — Release planning, increments, and milestone mapping.
- Lesson 2 & 2.1 — Outcomes vs outputs and designing KPI dashboards.
- Lesson 3 & 3.1 — Experimentation, A/B testing, and data-driven decisions.
- Lesson 4 & 4.1 — Managing multiple teams and shared backlogs.
- Lesson 5 & 5.1 — Operating within scaled frameworks (SAFe, LeSS, Nexus).
- Lesson 6 & 6.1 — Risk, compliance, and governance-ready feature proposals.
- Design a release plan for a quarter and present it visually.
- Prototype a KPI dashboard using fictional or real data.
- Simulate a PI / big-room planning conversation using narrative slides.
- Confidently plan and communicate releases across multiple teams.
- Use data and experiments to refine product decisions.
- Navigate scaled agile events and governance forums as a Product Owner.
- Release plan and risk register.
- Prototype KPI dashboard with narrative readout.
- Reflection: “How I use data to tell the story of my product.”
ADTL Alignment: LS 301 treats metrics as design elements — using visual dashboards, story-driven data presentations, and pop-culture metaphors to keep performance reviews human and comprehensible.
Shape product strategy, communicate with executives, and lead teams through complex transformation, ethics, and long-term sustainability.
- Lesson 1 & 1.1 — Product strategy, positioning, and strategic narrative.
- Lesson 2 & 2.1 — Portfolio planning, investment trade-offs, and prioritization workshops.
- Lesson 3 & 3.1 — Executive communication and storytelling with data.
- Lesson 4 & 4.1 — Leading teams through change and transformation.
- Lesson 5 & 5.1 — Ethics, risk, and sustainable product decision-making.
- Lesson 6 & 6.1 — Building a Product Owner community of practice and leadership playbook.
- Draft a product/portfolio strategy one-pager for a specific domain.
- Develop an executive-ready review deck with ADTL-inspired design.
- Design a change story and communication plan for a major transformation.
- Connect product and portfolio decisions to organizational strategy.
- Influence executives with clear, visually coherent narratives.
- Model ethical, sustainable leadership for Product Owners.
- Strategic narrative + portfolio map.
- Executive review deck and live presentation.
- Product leadership playbook artifact.
ADTL Alignment: LS 401 completes the Luminous Systems arc by treating leadership itself as a designed experience — integrating visual rhetoric, ethical framing, and systems storytelling at the portfolio level.