R3-10 SCAMPER file

Supports slide 18.

SCAMPER is the clearest case of a class method becoming an operating method. Taught one week, used the next day on a live problem, and in our plugin stack the same day.

Date	What happened
Sprint 20	SCAMPER taught (OneDay MBA)
9 Sep 2026	I hand-wrote and sent 8 follow-ups to named pricing-page visitors. Michael: “We really do need to get a handle on why people are not signing up for the paid subscriptions.”
10 Sep 2026	Sprint 20 micro-assessment: SCAMPER on the pricing-page non-conversion problem. 78 upgrade-CTA events, 2 paid-tier clicks from one visitor, 0 checkouts in eight days. 14 ideas across the seven lenses; three survived a three-question filter.
10 Sep 2026	Commit 094a676, “academic-pipeline 0.4.0: /scamper defixation command with novelty scoring”, then e5c8708 (0.4.1) the same day
11 Sep 2026	SCAMPER outline for the paper When Structure Pays (academic-pipeline stage 1.5)

The three that survived

1. A quote path beside the checkout. Kill if quote-path clicks don’t beat the two-click baseline within a week.
2. A one-question email to the eight named visitors: “what were you trying to price?” Kill if nobody replies.
3. Partner-led revenue through DTA. Kill if the 1 Oct go-live slips without a dated replacement.

The /scamper command ranks candidates by novelty, then stops and asks me to confirm the thesis: “the top novelty score is a proposal, not a decision.” That’s the Release Owner’s Gate in miniature.

Sources:

• Sprint20_SCAMPER_Cougias.md and .pdf, OneDay MBA/09 – Operations & Support/Sprint 20 Micro-assessment/
• moxywolf-plugins git log: 094a676 and e5c8708, 10 Sep 2026
• MoxyWolf Vault: Projects/Frontier Founder/11-Knowledge/Papers/when-structure-pays/pipeline/scamper_outline.md (11 Sep 2026)
• Weekly Check-In 9 Sep 2026 (Tests A to C)
• plugins/academic-pipeline/commands/scamper.md, step 3 (confirmation checkpoint)