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Shipley Book / Discipline Canon → Curriculum Map

The authoritative-source index: for every Shipley/APMP book and discipline, where the curriculum teaches the concept and where the machine encodes it — so a student can go from "curriculum concept" to "read the authoritative source," and an integrator can see the one canon behind both renderings.

License note. Shipley and APMP publications are commercial, copyrighted works. The Dream DNA corpus paraphrases them in DreamLimited's operating vocabulary (see docs/licensing-shipley-corpus.md and docs/licensing-apmp-corpus.md in DreamLimited/dna); it does not reproduce them verbatim. This page points students at the original authoritative sources for reading — it does not substitute for them.

How to read this page

  • Part A — the Shipley canon. The five Shipley Associates publications/disciplines, what each covers, the curriculum home, the DNA encoding, and the stack-agnostic concept.
  • Part B — the APMP canon. The APMP Body of Knowledge and the process standards, plus the certification ladder.
  • Part C — the discipline-to-source map. A one-glance table: curriculum concept → authoritative source.
  • Part D — citation honesty. What is cited where, and the licensing rule.

Part A — The Shipley canon

Shipley Associates has been teaching its capture-and-proposal method since the 1970s and gave the profession most of its shared vocabulary — capture plans, win themes, discriminators, ghost themes, color teams, the compliance matrix. The DNA corpus carries a paraphrase of the method (see [shipley-dna-fusion-map.md](shipley-dna-fusion-map.md) Part A), and this curriculum teaches the same concepts at doctrine altitude.

A.1 The Shipley Business Development Lifecycle / Business Development Process Guide

Canon elementWhat it coversCurriculum homeDNA encoding (v0.18.2)
Business Development Process Guide (Shipley's BD lifecycle — the five-phase marketing → capture → proposal → negotiate → award arc, formalized as a 7-gate/7-phase process)The whole business-development arc: market segmentation, long-term positioning, opportunity assessment, capture/opportunity planning, proposal planning, proposal development, post-submittal activitiesliteracy/industry-standard-canon.md (the BD lifecycle mapped onto the course); doctrine/03-the-pursuit-pipeline.md; modules/shared-core.md Session 2rules/shipley-capture-gates.yaml (the 7-gate registry), playbooks/shipley-capture.md (gates 1–4), playbooks/shipley-proposal.md (gates 5–7), playbooks/pipeline-doctrine.md
The seven-gate review ladderThe decision checkpoints with entry/exit criteria: market → opportunity → pursuit → capture readiness → proposal → submission → post-submissiondoctrine/04-gates-and-governance.md; literacy/industry-standard-canon.md (the 7-gate ladder); course/undergraduate-210-capture-and-pursuit-pipeline.mdrules/shipley-capture-gates.yaml

A.2 Shipley Capture Guide

Canon elementWhat it coversCurriculum homeDNA encoding (v0.18.2)
Shipley Capture GuideThe capture discipline: the capture window, opportunity assessment, the capture plan, customer engagement, discriminators vs. baselines, ghost themes, the capture readiness review, bid/no-biddoctrine/09-capture-and-competitive-strategy.md (the entire chapter); modules/graduate/elective-competitive-market-intelligence.md (GE 630)rules/capture.yaml, rules/bid-no-bid.yaml, rules/teaming.yaml, rules/incumbent-displacement.yaml, playbooks/shipley-capture.md, playbooks/01-pre-rfp.md, formulas/capture-readiness-index.formula.yaml, formulas/bid-no-bid-rubric.formula.yaml, formulas/pwin-shipley.formula.yaml, prompts/personas/capture-manager.md, rag-corpus/shipley-capture-proposal-guide/
Capture planThe written declaration of how the pursuit will be wondoctrine/09-capture-and-competitive-strategy.md (capture-plan section)rules/capture.yaml (win-strategy phase), playbooks/shipley-capture.md (phase map)
Win themes / discriminators / ghost themesThe differentiation vocabularydoctrine/09-capture-and-competitive-strategy.md; modules/graduate/elective-competitive-market-intelligence.mdrag-corpus/shipley-capture-proposal-guide/shipley-customer-centric-framing.md, shipley-discriminators-vs-baselines.md, shipley-ghost-themes.md; prompts/personas/discriminator-analyst.md

A.3 Shipley Proposal Guide

Canon elementWhat it coversCurriculum homeDNA encoding (v0.18.2)
Shipley Proposal Guide (the classic "red book," authored by Larry Newman; selected as a primary reference for the APMP Foundation exam)Proposal production discipline: strategy, customer focus, outlining, storyboards, reviews, compliance, submissiondoctrine/02-rfps-and-solicitations.md; doctrine/03-the-pursuit-pipeline.md (design/audit/submit); modules/graduate/elective-proposal-management-color-teams.md (GE 640); course/undergraduate-302-proposal-production-and-compliance.md (DL 302)playbooks/shipley-proposal.md, playbooks/02-rfp-decode.md04-proposal-production.md, rules/color-team.yaml, rules/submission.yaml, rules/section-l-format-compliance.yaml, formulas/compliance_parser.py, formulas/quality_gate.py, prompts/personas/proposal-manager.md
Color-team review cadencePink → Red → Gold → White-Glove review disciplineliteracy/how-color-teams-work.md; modules/graduate/elective-proposal-management-color-teams.mdrules/color-team.yaml, rules/apmp-color-teams.yaml, prompts/critics/*.md, rag-corpus/shipley-capture-proposal-guide/shipley-color-team-cadence.md
The compliance matrixThe spine of a compliant, persuasive proposaldoctrine/02-rfps-and-solicitations.md; literacy/the-four-volumes.mdplaybooks/compliance-matrix/compliance-matrix.yaml, playbooks/apmp/apmp-compliance-matrix.md, rag-corpus/shipley-capture-proposal-guide/shipley-compliance-spine.md

A.4 Winning Business

Canon elementWhat it coversCurriculum homeDNA encoding (v0.18.2)
Winning Business (Shipley's integrated methodology/workshop brand — the complete set of the above guides used together)Competitive positioning across the whole BD lifecycle: how a firm wins business in the government market, methodicallyliteracy/industry-standard-canon.md (the canon as one system); modules/strategic-initiative.md (the doctrine as an operating system); modules/shared-core.mdThe DNA corpus as a whole is the machine encoding of the integrated method: rules/, playbooks/, formulas/, prompts/, rag-corpus/ composed by playbooks/dream-sequence/autonomous-capture-dream-sequence.yaml

A.5 Pre-Written Sections (Shipley's proposal content library)

Canon elementWhat it coversCurriculum homeDNA encoding (v0.18.2)
Pre-Written Sections (Shipley's library of pre-approved, reusable proposal content modules)Content management: centrally curated, reusable proposal sections (executive summaries, past performance, methodology, case studies) to cut production time and keep voice/formatting consistentmodules/graduate/elective-proposal-management-color-teams.md (GE 640 — production system); literacy/the-four-volumes.mdplaybooks/volumes/*.yaml, playbooks/documents/*.yaml, playbooks/pricing/*.yaml, playbooks/sbir-proposals/_base.md (the reusable structural templates); rag-corpus/dreamlimited-past-performance/ (DreamLimited's own reusable PP content)

Part B — The APMP canon

B.1 The Body of Knowledge and process standards

Canon elementWhat it coversCurriculum homeDNA encoding (v0.18.2)
APMP Body of Knowledge (BOK)The reference standard and shared framework/terminology of the bid, proposal, and capture professionliteracy/industry-standard-canon.md (the canon, named); modules/graduate/elective-proposal-management-color-teams.md; research/competency-model.mdrag-corpus/apmp-bok/ (8 chunks), playbooks/apmp/* (5 playbooks), rules/apmp-color-teams.yaml, rag-corpus/apmp-references.md
APMP Proposal Process StandardsProcess-focused guidance on the proposal lifecyclemodules/graduate/elective-proposal-management-color-teams.mdplaybooks/apmp/apmp-proposal-flow.md
APMP Capture Process StandardsCapture-focused guidancemodules/graduate/elective-competitive-market-intelligence.md; doctrine/09-capture-and-competitive-strategy.mdrules/capture.yaml, playbooks/shipley-capture.md

B.2 The certification ladder

CertificationWhat it certifiesCurriculum home
APMP FoundationEntry-level knowledge of the discipline, assessed against the BOK (Shipley Proposal Guide is a primary reference)literacy/industry-standard-canon.md (certification landscape); research/credential-mapping.md
APMP Practitioner / Capture PractitionerApplied mastery of proposal / capture workmodules/graduate/elective-proposal-management-color-teams.md; modules/graduate/elective-competitive-market-intelligence.md
APMP ProfessionalSenior credential: demonstrated leadership + measurable impactmodules/doctoral/research-agenda.md; modules/strategic-initiative.md
Shipley certification (star-based, APMP-accredited)Correct application of Shipley's method in real workliteracy/industry-standard-canon.md

Part C — The discipline-to-source map (curriculum concept → authoritative source)

The reverse look-up: a student who has read a curriculum concept goes here to find the authoritative book. This is the "read the original" index.

Curriculum conceptWhere taughtAuthoritative source to read
Where the money lives / the marketdoctrine/01Shipley Business Development Process Guide (market segmentation phase); APMP BOK (opportunity pipeline management); FAR Part 2
The pursuit pipelinedoctrine/03Shipley Business Development Lifecycle Guide; APMP BOK (lifecycle stages)
Gates & governancedoctrine/04Shipley Business Development Process Guide (the 7-gate ladder); APMP BOK (bid/no-bid gate)
Scoring & price-to-windoctrine/05Shipley Proposal Guide (price as strategy); Shipley Capture Guide (pricing posture)
The ORBITAL structuredoctrine/06DreamLimited's own doctrine (O.R.B.I.T.A.L. / UBF) — not a Shipley/APMP source
Capture & competitive strategydoctrine/09Shipley Capture Guide (primary); APMP Capture Process Standards
Win themes / discriminators / ghost themesdoctrine/09Shipley Capture Guide (win strategy chapters); APMP BOK (win themes and discriminators)
Color teamsliteracy/how-color-teams-work.mdShipley Proposal Guide (color-team cadence); APMP BOK (review standards)
The four volumes + complianceliteracy/the-four-volumes.mdShipley Proposal Guide (volume/outline discipline, compliance matrix); APMP BOK (compliance management)
Proposal productionmodules/graduate/elective-proposal-management-color-teams.mdShipley Proposal Guide (primary); APMP Proposal Process Standards
Post-submission, orals, FPR, debriefdoctrine/10Shipley Business Development Lifecycle Guide (post-submittal activities); APMP BOK (post-submission)
Teaming / JV / subcontractingmodules/graduate/elective-teaming-jv-subcontracting.mdAPMP BOK (teaming & partnerships); 13 CFR 121/125 (SBA affiliation/JV) — the legal text
FAR / DFARScourse/undergraduate-301-procurement-law-and-far-fundamentals.mdFAR (acquisition.gov) and DFARS — the law itself, not a book
Price-to-win finance (DCAA/CAS/TINA)modules/graduate/advanced-finance.mdFAR Part 31 (cost principles); DCAA Contract Audit Manual; CAS; TINA (10 U.S.C./41 U.S.C.) — the regulatory text
SBIR / STTRdoctrine/01SBIR/STTR statutes + SBA SBIR Policy Directive; sbir.gov
Certification landscapeliteracy/industry-standard-canon.mdAPMP BOK + APMP certification program; Shipley training/certification

Part D — Citation honesty

  1. No invented editions. Shipley titles are cited by title (Shipley Capture Guide, Shipley Proposal Guide, Shipley Business Development Lifecycle Guide / Business Development Process Guide) without specific edition numbers, because the DNA corpus paraphrases the current edition and this repo must not assert an edition it has not verified. APMP BOK is cited as "v4" where the DNA provenance cites it; otherwise as "the current BOK."
  2. License-clean corpus. Every Shipley/APMP-derived DNA artifact restates the concept in DreamLimited's operating vocabulary; verbatim Shipley/APMP text is never reproduced. Students who want the authoritative text must buy/borrow the original publication — this map points them there.
  3. The concept is the durable thing. The Shipley books and the APMP BOK are the canon; the DNA corpus is the machine encoding of that canon; the curriculum is the human rendering of that canon. When a new Shipley/APMP edition changes vocabulary, the change is recorded in the DNA map (shipley-dna-fusion-map.md) and this book canon — never by rewriting a doctrine file.
  4. Where the two canons overlap. Shipley owns the seven-gate BD lifecycle topology; APMP layers production-discipline detail on Shipley's color-team cadence. Both are carried in DNA (rules/shipley-capture-gates.yaml + rules/color-team.yaml for Shipley; rules/apmp-color-teams.yaml + playbooks/apmp/* for APMP). The overlap is complementary, not duplicate.

The Dream Pursuit Doctrine — a concept-first curriculum for winning federal business.