Foundations: Completion

What You Have Completed

DPP Foundations took you from no assumed knowledge of Digital Product Passports to a defensible first position on one product. Module 1 established the definition and the four layers. Module 2 placed your organisation in the value chain and named which duties attach to which role. Module 3 covered what a passport has to contain and who owns which attribute. Module 4 covered how a passport actually works once it exists: identifiers, carriers, resolution and persistence. Module 5 covered how a delegated act turns a framework obligation into a specific one, and what to do while the detail is still unwritten. Module 6 put all five to work on a single product and produced a readiness position, a sequence of first actions, and a five sentence brief.

This is a course completion, not a professional certification. It confirms you have done the work in six modules, not that you hold a qualification.

What You Can Now Do

• Define a Digital Product Passport accurately and tell it apart from a label, a QR campaign, a page or a PDF.
• Decide whether and where your organisation carries a duty, without guessing at scope.
• Say what a passport has to contain and which attributes in your organisation currently have no owner.
• Explain how a passport works in practice, from data carrier to resolved record, and why persistence matters after a sale.
• Read regulatory timing correctly and separate what is already settled from what is still pending detail.
• Produce a first readiness position for one product, sequence your first three actions, and brief a decision maker on it in five sentences.

What Foundations Did Not Cover

Foundations is deliberately narrow. It did not cover field level schema work: mapping your own data to a fixed attribute list is product group specific and was left for later paths. It did not cover vendor implementation: choosing or configuring any particular platform. It did not cover the detail of supplier contracting: what clauses to put in an agreement, as opposed to when to approach a supplier and with what kind of request. And it did not cover audit or enforcement practice: how a market authority actually checks a passport once one exists. All four are real, substantial bodies of work, and none of them can be done honestly before the readiness work this path covers.

Where To Go Next

The Knowledge Base is where the canonical articles behind every Foundations module live, and it goes considerably further than the Academy lessons drawn from it. The framework registry lists every tieback framework used across the path, including the two used in this module, with full descriptions. Later Academy paths build directly on Foundations: they assume you can already define a passport, place your organisation in the value chain, and state a readiness position, and they take each of the four gaps named above further than this path does.

Related Docs

• DPP Foundations
• Module 6 overview
• Digital Product Passports
• tieback Frameworks