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Platform Engineering & DevEx Strategy Workshop

VP Engineering, Platform Leads, Engineering ManagersPlatform engineering strategy, golden path specifications, DevEx baseline

Design internal developer platforms and golden paths that accelerate delivery, improve developer experience, and create standardised pathways.

...of this workshop is concrete: design internal developer platforms and golden paths that accelerate delivery, improve developer experience (DevEx), and create standardised, secure, observable pathways. I've...

2 DaysStrategic Design

DevEx ImprovementTeam Velocity

Platform Engineering Developer Experience Internal Developer Platform Golden Paths View Details

Fractional Technology Leadership Engagement

Startups and scale-ups needing senior technology leadershipTechnology strategy, architecture governance, team development, board reporting

Embed experienced technology leadership into your organisation on a part-time basis—owning architecture decisions, team development, and delivery governance.

...leadership into your organisation on a part-time basis — owning architecture decisions, team development, delivery governance, and executive reporting without the overhead of a full-time hire. I've seen startups...

1-3 Days/WeekEmbedded

Fraction of CostFull-time Hire

Fractional CTO Fractional VP Engineering Fractional Chief Architect Part Time Leadership View Details

Paying Down Debt Through Feature Work

CTOs, Engineering Leaders, Enterprise Architects, Product Leaders3-4 hoursA feature-driven debt reduction policy — the rule, the visibility mechanism, and the two questions review asks about every feature

Debt accumulates faster than refactoring projects can remove it. Fund architecture improvement through the product roadmap instead of competing with it.

Quick Navigation Start here — the technical debt trap The wrong model: debt separated from delivery The feature refactoring principle Practice 1 — Refactor the area you touch Practice 2 — Expand...

1 DayIntensive

ContinuousNot a project

Technical Debt Architecture Evolution Product Delivery Governance View Details

Analyzing Business Strategies: From Strategic Intent to Execution Discipline

A structured executive guide to analyzing business strategies using a four-layer framework that connects intent, positioning, capability, and execution discipline.

...Platform ecosystem vs product excellence If a company claims: High quality Lowest price Fastest delivery Most innovative Simultaneously… It likely has no positioning discipline. Strategic Insight If...

Leadership Operating Model Governance Read Insight

Your Platform Team Is Building a Product Nobody Asked For.

Most platform teams build internal products their engineering teams never chose. Platform adoption is not a marketing problem. It is a product governance problem. Here is the model that fixes it.

...structured model called the Platform Product Governance Model (PPGM) — three layers that turn platform delivery from a build-and-hope approach into a governed product lifecycle Time to implement: 45–90 days Business...

Leadership Platform Engineering Governance Read Insight

Monitoring Added After Deployment Is Not Observability. It Is Archaeology.

Observability is not a monitoring add-on. It is an architectural constraint. Systems built without observability baked in cannot be understood, cannot be governed, and cannot be improved. The OSAF model tells you exactly where your architecture is blind.

...sequence looks like this: Architect the system Build the system Deploy the system Add logging Add metrics Add tracing Wonder why nothing connects This is not observability. This is archaeology. You...

Architecture Observability Platform Engineering Read Insight

You Cannot Improve an Architecture You Have Not Measured.

Enterprise architecture maturity is not a feeling. It is a score. Organizations that cannot measure their architecture maturity cannot improve it. The EAMS model gives you the score.

...tells you nothing about 2026. Architecture maturity is not static. It drifts. It degrades under delivery pressure. It needs to be scored regularly. Enterprise Architecture Maturity Score (EAMS) Enterprise...

Leadership Governance Execution Read Insight

Your HCI Proof of Concept Measures the Wrong Thing.

Most organizations evaluate private cloud and HCI platforms by running a technical POC. The POC passes. The platform fails. The reason is structural — and fixable. The Platform Fitness Evaluation Model (PFEM) tells you what to measure instead.

...organizations say: The platform works. But operations are harder than expected. Upgrade cycles are disrupting delivery windows. The support model does not match how our teams escalate incidents. The licensing...

Architecture Platform Engineering Governance Read Insight

Operating Model Choices

Advanced (EA, TS)5-6 hoursOperating model design canvas + team topology guide + Conway's Law application worksheet + Communication Structure Heatmap

How the structure of technology teams shapes the structure of the systems they build — covering Conway's Law, centralised vs federated models, platform teams, product operating models, team topologies, and designing the organisation that produces the architecture you want.

...domain teams — autonomy within guardrails. Implementation owned by stream teams — full ownership of delivery. Transitioning from centralised to federated: Centralised — everything through one body. Delegate...

1 DayIntensive

StrategicEA · TS

Architecture Operating Model Conway's Law Team Topologies Platform Teams Strategy View Details

Platform as a Product

CTOs, Heads of Platform Engineering, VP Engineering, Enterprise Architects, Platform Product Managers3-4 hoursA three-gate platform governance plan — validated backlog, a written scope boundary, and adoption targets per capability

An internal platform with no product owner builds what nobody asked for and skips what everybody needs — adoption, not completeness, is the only measure that counts.

...delivered, uptime at 99.9%, a hundred tickets resolved, three integrations completed. Every one of those metrics describes what the platform team produced; none describe whether anyone used it. Meanwhile one...

1 DayIntensive

AdoptionNot feature count

Platform Engineering Internal Developer Platform Product Governance Golden Paths View Details

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