SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE · Manual → Structured → Automated → Intelligent
SYSTEM THINKING
CP3405 System Architecture
Scrum does not change. The complexity of the system changes. Your team is not completing tasks — you are designing an intelligence pipeline.
Core Principle
Manual Work Is a System Design Signal
Every time your team does something manually — collecting data, running prompts, comparing outputs, scoring evidence — you are discovering a future automation requirement. This is not inefficiency. This is system specification through lived experience.
Strong teams don't just complete the sprint. They ask: how would we build this so a machine could do it at scale?
Data Sources → Agents → LLM Synthesis → Human Score → Lock → Delta → Prescribe → Repeat
This is the complete Scrum-aligned sprint cycle. The left half is Sprint Execution (Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Scrum). The right half — from Locked Decision onward — is the Sprint Review and Retrospective codified as a system. The teal calibration loop at the bottom is Scrum's Inspect and Adapt principle made visible: every Rx prescription is a retrospective action item that enters next sprint's backlog. You are not building a trading system. You are building a disciplined system improvement engine.
A software architecture view of how Prism — your future tool — would be structured. Each layer your team touches manually this sprint will eventually become code.
Honest assessment: most teams are currently at Level 1–2. The goal of this course is to get you thinking and building toward Level 3–4.
System Thinking Principles
What Strong Teams Understand
Manual = System Signal Every repetitive manual step is a future automation requirement. Do not accept friction as the natural state.
You Are Building Systems This course is not about completing assignments. It is about designing, testing, and improving a market intelligence system.
Automation Frees Judgement When data collection is automated, human attention moves to where it matters: interpretation, scepticism, and the Wild Card.
Scale Test Everything Ask: "What breaks when we scale to 10 teams?" If the answer is "everything", your process is not a system yet.
Scrum Exposes the System Sprints, standups, retrospectives, and release tags are not ceremony. They are the feedback loop that makes the system self-correcting.
Human Score = Irreplaceable Four LLMs cannot replace the R5 Human Score. Pattern recognition, news intuition, and contrarian thinking remain human advantages.