crescendo

Crescendo

Lyric’s cohort-based program for supply chain analysts, modelers and builders. This repo holds the program material: session pages, assignments, decks, starter data and the certificate bundle.

The public page is lyric.tech/crescendo. It is not in this repo. The lyriccrescendopilot.tech domain in CNAME served the pilot and is being retired — read cert/HANDOFF.md before it goes dark.

Where things are

Folder What’s in it
cohort-1/ Cohort 1 — Sept 21 to Oct 22, 2026. Five weeks. Start at cohort-1/planning/curriculum-outline.md.
gym/ Crescendo Gym — 11 sessions of standalone workouts, plus workouts/, demos/ and starter-data/
pilot/ The 4-week pilot, Apr 13 – May 7, 2026. Archive. 6 sessions plus the Chicago finale, assignments, agendas, recap, cohort photos
cert/ The 20 pilot certificates. Frozen — do not rename. See cert/HANDOFF.md
reference/ Explainers not tied to a cohort — VRP solvers, a sample sourcing report
assets/ Shared Lyric logos
internal/ Not for participants. Empower panel plan, certification slides, and the superseded Fall 2026 landing mockup

Every old path from before the 1 Sept 2026 reorganization is recorded in MIGRATION.md.

Cohort 1 at a glance

Product Thinking → Data → AI² → Storytelling → Finale

Week Theme Folder
0 Getting ready — hype emails, Circle, workspace week-0-getting-ready/
1 Product Thinking — decision mesh, personas, Lenny’s principles week-1-product-thinking/
2 Data — pitfalls at scale, sources, Data Jockey week-2-data/
3 AI² — BYOA, composability, build the product week-3-ai2/
4 Storytelling & Delivery — Hero’s Journey, Seven Stories, trailer week-4-storytelling/
5 Chicago Finale — Thu Oct 22 week-5-finale/

Each week folder has a README with its five slots: what it covers, the OMG moment, the assignment, the optional mini-session, and the guest speaker. Five slots are still open — they are marked TODO and listed in the curriculum outline.

Pilot → Cohort 1

The pilot ran 4 weeks and 6 sessions. Cohort 1 runs 5 weeks. The reasoning behind the change — including the survey finding that the pilot was lighter on Lyric-specific modeling than students wanted — is in cohort-1/planning/crescendo-1-decisions.md.

Conventions