Most training is run as a series of projects: someone requests a course, a designer builds it, it ships, and the project closes. Then the world changes and nobody owns the course anymore. LearningOps treats training as a living system that has to be operated.
From projects to operations
Software teams learned this lesson years ago. Code isn't "done" when it ships; it's monitored, patched and released again. Training has the same lifecycle, with sources (policies, products, procedures) playing the role of dependencies.
The four workflows
- Build: draft from approved sources, with review against those sources.
- Change: detect when a source changes and find every course it affects.
- Release: ship updates through checks and approvals, with versions and rollback.
- Observe: watch freshness, understanding and readiness, and feed findings back into Build.
Why evidence matters
Every workflow depends on knowing which source passage each claim came from. Without that link, change detection is guesswork and reviews start from scratch every time.
Where to start
Pick one library where staleness is costly, map its courses to current sources, and make "update before the effective date" a goal. Tools help, but the habit comes first. Coursecast's platform is designed around these four workflows; the drafting step is live today.