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Intermediate (SA, EA)5-7 hoursPattern selection guide + pattern comparison matrix + anti-pattern catalogue

Proven, reusable solutions to recurring structural problems — each with known trade-offs that make it suited to some contexts and unsuitable for others.

...context — when this pattern is appropriate. A trade-off — what you gain and what you sacrifice. Known failure modes — how this pattern goes wrong when misapplied. Here's the part that catches people out:...

1.5 DaysIntensive

PracticalSA · EA

Architecture Solution Design Patterns Microservices Event Driven View Details

Technology Strategy & Architecture Strategy

Advanced (EA, TS)5-6 hoursTechnology strategy vs architecture strategy distinction map + strategy brief template

How to distinguish technology strategy from architecture strategy, connect both to business strategy, and define a coherent direction for the organisation's technology investments.

...observed "What integration?" Kafka, REST, or GraphQL How systems communicate — contracts, patterns, failure modes The strategy hierarchy: Business Strategy — growth, market, customers. Technology Strategy...

1.5 DaysIntensive

StrategicEA · TS

Architecture Technology Strategy Business Strategy Direction Enterprise Context View Details

How to Think With AI

Beginner to Advanced5-7 hoursPersonal AI Fluency framework + working habits

AI Fluency — the four competencies that separate people who use AI from people who think with it. Delegation, Description, Discernment, Diligence. Master these and everything else follows.

...have alone. What this looks like in practice: "I'm about to make this architectural decision. What failure modes am I not seeing?" or "Here's my argument. Where is it weakest?" or "Push back on this —...

2 DaysIntensive

4 CompetenciesComplete Framework

AI Fluency Generative AI Productivity AI Workflows Responsible AI View Details

Conway's Law & Team Boundaries

CTO, VP Engineering, Engineering Directors, Principal Engineers3-4 hoursTwo-layer boundary map — the official org design set against actual incident load, with every structural gap named

Your architecture mirrors your communication structure whether you designed it that way or not — which makes team boundaries an architectural decision.

...way. The hypothesis was reasonable when it was formed. Teams were smaller. Systems were newer. The failure modes were unknown. Six months later the systems have grown, teams have shifted, informal dependencies...

1 DayIntensive

BoundariesStructure as design

Conway's Law Team Topologies Organisational Design Team Boundaries View Details

Delivery Metrics That Mean Something

Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, VP Engineering, CTOs3-4 hoursA delivery scorecard — four DORA signals plus a five-dimension maturity baseline with one named bottleneck

How to replace delivery dashboards that measure activity with signals that tell you which dimension is actually holding delivery back — and what to fix first.

...required guessing, you do not have a score. You have a feeling. Why measurement usually fails — three failure modes Plenty of organisations do measure. They still cannot act on what they measure. Most maturity...

1 DayIntensive

EvidenceNot feeling

Delivery Metrics DORA Architecture Maturity Governance View Details

Responsible AI — Ethics, Risk & Governance

Beginner to Intermediate4-5 hoursAI risk map + personal responsibility checklist + governance starter framework

Using AI responsibly — covering ethics, bias, hallucination risk, data privacy, accountability, and organisational governance. The judgment to use AI fairly, safely, and in a way you can defend.

...team without diversity in background, perspective, and lived experience will consistently overlook failure modes that would be obvious to people with different experiences. This is not a criticism of...

1 DayIntensive

Beginner FriendlyNo legal background required

Responsible AI AI Ethics AI Risk AI Governance Bias Data Privacy AI Fluency View Details

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.

...parallel Autonomy Low Moderate High Scalability Poor at scale Good Good Risk Single point of failure Balanced Fragmentation The hybrid model in detail: Cross-cutting standards owned by central...

1 DayIntensive

StrategicEA · TS

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

Delivery, Implementation & Architecture Runway

Intermediate (SA, EA, TS)4-5 hoursArchitecture runway template + delivery dependency map + agile architecture checklist

How architecture supports delivery instead of blocking it — covering architecture runway, phased implementation, dependency management, keeping teams unblocked, and recovering when architecture goes wrong during delivery.

...incoherent architecture. The relationship between architecture and delivery falls into one of four modes: The target: architecture enables delivery. Decisions are made just in time — not too early (wasteful)...

1 DayIntensive

PracticalSA · EA · TS

Architecture Solution Design Delivery Agile Runway View Details

What Architecture Is

All levels — SA, EA, TS3-4 hoursArchitecture definition canvas + what it is / what it isn't reference card

What software and enterprise architecture actually is — its structure, relationships, and decisions — and what it is not. No diagrams. No jargon. Just clarity.

...decided, not the person who implemented What happens if the message queue goes down? If nobody knows, failure modes weren't designed How does data flow between the two biggest services? Draw it from memory,...

Half-dayIntensive

FoundationFor all roles

Architecture Foundations Decision Making View Details

Multimodal AI

Beginner to Intermediate3-4 hoursMultimodal use case map + modality selection framework

AI is no longer just text in, text out. Learn how modern systems work across language, images, audio, video, and documents — and how to choose the right modality for the job.

...extracted. Where multimodal systems fail Multimodal systems expand capability, but they also expand failure modes. Common problems include: poor image quality or bad scans missing context outside the...

Half DayIntensive

Beginner FriendlyNo technical background required

Multimodal AI Computer Vision Speech AI Document AI AI Fluency View Details

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