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Certified Reasoning Operator

Scrum with Claude, and the reasoning discipline around it. Five laws, a five-act method and a canon of real production failures that teach what each law costs when ignored. For people who direct AI agents on work that matters and need the output to survive scrutiny.

Level
intermediate
Duration
~2.5 hours
Price
Free
Assessment
Checks per lesson + final exam
On completion
Verifiable certificate

Taught by Kesara Bandaragoda
Founder of Geeks Around Globe | CEO at BrandFactory | AI-Native Systems & Media

Start the course — free

Passing the exam earns “Certified Reasoning Operator” — a private certificate of completion issued by Geeks Around Globe with a public verification page. See the certificate

What you'll learn

  1. 01Reframe a request before executing it, and open work with an outcome rather than a task list.
  2. 02Stack orthogonal lenses so analysis cannot hide its own blind spot.
  3. 03Name rival hypotheses and control the reference class before investigation begins.
  4. 04Force external grounding instead of accepting the training average.
  5. 05Verify the artifact rather than the report of success.
  6. 06Run empirical loops — transparency, inspection, adaptation — with a Definition of Done agreed up front.
  7. 07Sequence irreversible work so it ships last, alone, and recoverably.

Who this course is for

Instructor: Kesara Bandaragoda — Founder of Geeks Around Globe | CEO at BrandFactory | AI-Native Systems & Media

Operators, founders, engineers, analysts and editors who already use AI agents and want their reasoning — not just their prompting — to hold up.

Prerequisites

  • Practical experience directing an AI assistant on real work.

Syllabus

Act I — The Original Question

  • Reframe before you execute — 11 min
  • Stack two lenses, never one — 10 min

Act II — First Principles

  • Reduce to irreducibles — 12 min
  • Control the reference class — 11 min

Act III — Fiction Stripped

  • Name the rival hypothesis — 12 min
  • Force external grounding — 11 min
  • Verify the claim, not the report — 12 min

Act IV — System Mapped

  • Scrum with Claude: empiricism — 12 min
  • Definition of Done, agreed before work starts — 10 min
  • Small batch and the timebox — 10 min
  • Stage the irreversible — 11 min

Act V — Practical Awakening

  • The Failure Canon — 14 min
  • The retrospective that compounds — 10 min

Your certificate

Finish the programme, earn the certificate

Pass the final assessment and “Certified Reasoning Operator” is issued in your name: sealed, numbered and dated, with a page anyone can use to check it.

  • Add it to LinkedInOne click from your certificate’s page adds it to your profile, linked back to the record.
  • A credential anyone can checkA unique credential ID and QR code open its live record, served from our issuing database.
  • Strengthen your résuméThe skills you practised are printed on it, with a link that shows you finished the work.
Start the course — free

A private certificate of completion issued by Geeks Around Globe. Not an accredited academic credential.

Specimen of the Certified Reasoning Operator certificate for Certified Reasoning Operator: an ivory certificate with an engraved border, the Geeks Around Globe mark, a red wax seal with ribbons, a credential ID and a QR code.
Specimen. Each certificate carries the learner’s name, the date, a credential ID and a QR code to its live record. Select it to see it full size.

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