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Big initiatives fail late because the hardest, most important work gets scheduled last. Status stays green right up until it doesn't. Our CAPED approach (Complexity-Aware Planning, Estimation, and Delivery) front-loads the complex parts of an initiative, so you get early value, early learning, and commitments that survive contact with reality. It's the predictability project management promises and the adaptability agile promises, without stacking their weaknesses. Two ways to put CAPED to work: Consulting. Most clients bring us into a strategic initiative with real stakes, real uncertainty, and often a date already attached. We work alongside the leaders and teams responsible for it through CAPED's planning phases: mapping the core complexity, finding the first slices that deliver value and resolve the biggest unknowns, and building a forecast you can defend. Your people learn the approach by doing it. Training and certification. One curriculum built around CAPED: the CAPED Practitioner and CAPED Agile for Teams workshops as the foundation, certifications for product owners (CCPO, A-CCPO), team leaders (CCTL), and facilitators (CCF), and skills workshops like Vertical Slicing and our Management Series. Between courses, we coach people as they apply the skills to live initiatives. CAPED is in use in regulated medical device development, AI-native startups, enterprise IT, and hardware-plus-software product companies. Richard Lawrence and Peter Green distilled it from two decades of patterns that consistently worked around agile teams, from leading Adobe's agile transformation to coaching hundreds of client organizations. Our "How to Split a User Story" flowchart has been downloaded over a million times. Free, in depth: the Humanizing Work Show, our Key Ideas of the Week newsletter, and the Library. Ready to talk? Book an intro call at humanizingwork.com/contact. We'll help you unpack the challenge, ask useful questions, and identify some ways forward.