Your Number
Rolled yield; build your gauge.
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Raise the Rate
Project management & Lean Six Sigma, taught from the industries that proved it.
The complete lesson plan book is free to download today. The taught courses are coming soon — opening one module a week, in ladder order, each one paced by the field exercise you run on your own operation.
COMING SOON · TAUGHT COURSES OPEN ONE MODULE A WEEK
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Raise the Rate — The Complete Lesson Plan Book (PDF)
The whole series, written down in full: every module’s lesson plan, the doctrine, and the field exercises, in the order the taught courses will open. Take the book now, read it whole, and start with Module 1 — its lesson plan is in the book, in full.
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01 / THE DOCTRINE IN BRIEF
Know why, not only whether.
A number only raises for good when the people closest to the work understand it. So this series teaches comprehension at every level: the person doing the work, the person leading it, and the person answering for it should each be able to say why the rate moved — not only whether it did. A gauge nobody can explain is just a scoreboard nobody trusts. When the why travels with the number, all the way down and all the way back up, the improvement holds — because it was understood, not obeyed.
- IEnd state first.
- IIOne form, unchanged.
- IIIFirst-pass truth.
- IVThe gauge is the scoreboard.
- VGates beside the rate, held by named humans.
- VIImprovement arrives as refractals — small sourced practices, judged on the number.
- VIIWHY at every level.
- VIIIAdoption by thread, at your pace.
02 / THE MODULE LADDER
Fourteen modules. One ladder.
Read the book whole today. The taught editions open weekly, in this order — one module a week, each paced by its field exercise.
LESSON PLAN IN THE BOOK, IN FULL
TAUGHT EDITION — OPENING WEEKLY
Commitments You Can Count
Binary weekly promises, scored.
Less Started, More Finished
WIP limits; Little’s Law.
Make the Error Impossible
Poka-yoke; continuous close.
Stop the Line
Andon authority.
Report the Almost
Near-miss learning.
Read It Back
Checklists with read-back.
Verified by Another
Independent verification.
First Pass, Every Pass
First-pass yield.
The Ten-Minute Turn
SMED changeovers.
One Plan, Four Gates
Case conferences; standard work.
Small Batches, Fast Signal
The small-batch rule.
The Weekly Review
Exception-driven review; input metrics.
Registers That Remember — Capstone
Seal the gauge; read the delta.
03 / HOW IT RUNS
Weekly, and paced by the work itself.
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One module a week, exercise-paced
The taught courses run weekly and exercise-paced: the lesson opens, and the week’s real work is the field exercise you run on your own operation.
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The next module unlocks on your artifact
Each module unlocks when you log its field-exercise artifact. No artifact, no unlock — the ladder moves at the speed of work actually done, not videos watched.
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The credential is the number you raised — no belts
There are no belts. The credential is your gauge page and the number you raised: your own measured rate, and the record of what you did to raise it.
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Included whole, inside the app
The series is included whole with the Team Tess Playbook subscription and lives inside the app, fully customizable — your gauge, your operation, your pace.
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Plain note: enrollment opens with the Playbook subscription; the book is free now.