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Status report for the steering committee
When dates, risks and open items need to become a report a committee reads in five minutes.
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Prompts
Ready-made prompts for recurring project work. Each one comes with the part that is usually missing: how to tell when the answer doesn't hold up.
Reporting and escalating
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Preparing an escalation
When a decision has to go up a level and the question is how to ask without looking out of your depth.
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Planning and deciding
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Finding the risks nobody has named yet
When the risk register holds only the obvious entries and you want to know what is missing.
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Stakeholder matrix, cross-examined
When the matrix is done and you want to know who you have misjudged.
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Testing a business case against itself
Before the numbers reach a committee — and someone else finds the gap.
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From mess to structure: clustering a collection and deriving consent questions
The pile of cards from a brainstorm becomes named clusters, one decision question per cluster in objection form, and a list of what nobody has said yet.
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Turning a vague brief into an agenda
"Just run a workshop" becomes a goal in one sentence, the questions to settle with the sponsor beforehand, and a run of timed blocks for the duration you actually have.
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Learning from what happened
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A retrospective that does not end in collecting
When recent retros produced a lot of notes and little change.
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Lessons learned somebody else can use
At project close — when the report would otherwise vanish into a folder.
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From the wall to a list of actions
Photos and transcripts taken after the session become actions with an owner and a date, kept apart from what was merely parked, plus a third list for everything that is neither. This is the one for working through it afterwards in a single pass — if you want the record kept as the session runs, take the guide "Workshop memory".
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Guides
How to set up an agent for a recurring project task — in the tool your organisation already uses. Longer than a prompt, and worth it from the fifth run onwards.
Guide
Setting up an agent for the weekly status report
When the status report has the same shape every week and still starts from scratch every time.
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Workshop memory: setting up an agent that keeps the record
Photos of the walls and transcripts after every block become four running lists: decisions with objection and resolution, parking lot, open questions, and actions with a name and a date — plus a block-end summary somebody can check. This is the one for keeping the record as the session runs; if you would rather work through everything afterwards in a single pass, take the prompt "From the wall to a list of actions".
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Templates
Working templates as PDFs, from real training work. Also available without an account on agile-forge.com/tools.
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3-Level Alignment Canvas
The kick-off template: mandate, outcome and way of working on a single page — settled before the first task is handed out.
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Cynefin quick reference
What kind of problem is this, and which approach fits it? The four domains, each with the mistake people typically make in it.
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Consent record (decision, objection, change)
A discussion going in circles becomes one line: proposal, objection, what would have to change, decision, date. One sheet per proposal, with a field for who did not speak.
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Setting the guardrails before the workshop starts
A brief of “just run a workshop” becomes one page: what is off limits, who decides what (delegation level per topic), what the session is for, what it explicitly is not, and who is missing from the room.
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