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Learning objectives
After the lesson the participant can:
- Compare two landscapes in a V6 view in the thirty-second order without ranking them.
- Explain why the order of control before autonomy keeps the rostering system's trail clean.
- Interpret the summary strips and state what they do not add up.
- Plan a year-end landscape review using the chapter's eight steps.
Key concepts
- The comparison frame
- It draws two landscapes at identical scales, sizes and colours, with one legend between them, and forbids rescaling either to fit. It makes visible who holds the seats and where the proof comes from, and withholds a ranking.
- Summary strip
- The counts under each landscape in V6: units per mode and per level, and marks with a filled diamond, a seat and a solid baseline. A change of tier still counts as a seat, and the strips are not added up into a score.
- Control before autonomy
- Nordvik Region's rostering system has its policy point enforced on 20 January, seven weeks before one action class rises to Level 3 Bounded on 11 March. In the other order the mark would carry the thin red outline for seven weeks.
- A year of motion, a year of seats
- The Region's year has two new marks, two trails and one retirement. Not one of the group's seventeen marks moves; its changes are a seat rising to 4, a seat rising to 3, a baseline turned solid and a seat added to its ambient AI.
- Year-end landscape review
- Eight steps: fix two snapshot dates, add a timeline entry on the day of each change, render the views, write one line per trail, tick and cross, check seats and baselines of unmoved marks, explain each strip number, note what the pictures omit, and set next year's dates.
Interactive exercises
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Interactive exercise 1 · Match
A year in dated decisions
Pair each date of the scenario year 2027 with what the two models record for it. The year is a scenario, not a forecast.
Interactive exercise 2 · Scenario
Which one is ahead?
Read the situation and choose how the supervisor's question should be answered, following what the chapter says the comparison frame does.
Teaching plan
| 15 min | Participants read Figure 18.1 in the thirty-second order in pairs, one panel each, and report: the empty corner, squares at Level 3 and above, marks without a seat, dashed baselines at R3, colours. |
| 25 min | The teacher tells the year with Figures 18.2 to 18.5: the Region's order of diamond and level, the trail that goes down, the group's seats in March and April, the two grey marks seated, and 2 December 2027, which leaves no trace in any figure. |
| 15 min | Pairs read Figure 18.6 in the same order and explain each number that moved between the two summary strips in one sentence. |
| 40 min | Exercise: participants compare two landscapes side by side and plan a year-end review for their own. |
| 10 min | Closing: what the frame does not show, and why the chapter's one general conclusion is a statement about design and not a forecast. |
Discussion
- The same blind spot is named in both organisations in the same year, and the result is a grey square at Level 4 with a small 2 above it; the Region's diamond is hollow and the group's absent. What explains the difference in the diamond?
- The frame does not weigh one XL square at R3 against six S circles at R1 and leaves the weighing to the reader. Who in your organisation should do that weighing, and with which other information?
- Nothing in the notation records the extension of the agent-boss pilot's mandate to 30 June 2028. What else about a year would you write under what the pictures do not show?
Written exercise
Exercise · 40 minutes
Two landscapes, no ranking
Work in pairs. Each of you brings the hand-drawn V1 of an organisation: your own, or one of you takes Nordvik Region and the other Hansa Mutual from Figure 18.1. First redraw the two side by side at identical scales and sizes with one legend, and write a summary strip under each: units per mode and per level, and the number of marks with a filled diamond, a seat and a solid baseline. Read the pair in the thirty-second order and write five differences as differences of position, shape, colour, diamond, seat and baseline, without a verdict on which is better governed. Then, for your own landscape, write a plan for a year-end review following the eight steps: the two snapshot dates, who adds timeline entries, which views are rendered, and what the pictures will not show.
Deliverable: A hand-drawn V6 with shared legend and two summary strips, five written differences with no ranking, and a one-page year-end review plan.
Self-test
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In the scenario, what happens to the mark of Hansa Mutual's IT-operations agent HM-ITO on the grid on 31 March 2027?
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B. Nothing moves; the seat above it changes from 2 to 4 when the executive board takes the decision right
The XL square stays at Level 3 and R3. After a stop drill that took 17 minutes against a budget of 5, the board takes the decision right over every agent with write access to production, and the seat changes from 2 to 4.What do the summary strips of Figure 18.6 report for Nordvik Region across the year?
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C. Filled diamond 7 then 11, seat 10 then 13, solid baseline 6 then 8, of 11 and then 13 marks
The Region's numbers move more because it has more hollow diamonds to fill. Hansa Mutual's are 16 and 16, 16 then 17, and 12 then 13 of 17. The strips are explained number by number and not added up into a score.Which trail is the only leftward trail in either landscape during 2027?
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B. The agentic work tools NR-AWT, from Level 2 Supervised to Level 1 Assisted
On 1 May the Region's agentic work tools move from Level 2 to Level 1, when the platform team's agents are brought under the ceiling the security architect's role charter sets. The rostering system's trail runs the other way, to Level 3.