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VP Engineering, Platform Leads, Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers3-4 hoursCognitive load assessment per team, an interaction model, and a platform team charter naming what the platform does and does not own

A team can only hold so much — and the interaction modes between teams are what decide whether that limit is respected or quietly exceeded.

...question you just answered on their behalf. Where the two lists differ is where the load is invisible to leadership — which is the load that never gets designed against. What a team is actually carrying —...

1 DayIntensive

CapacityWhat a team can hold

Cognitive Load Team Topologies Platform Engineering Developer Experience View Details

Developer Experience as a Control System

CTOs, Engineering Leads, Platform Engineering Teams, Engineering Managers3-4 hoursA delivery friction map across four sprints, one named constraint pillar, and a traced DX-to-delivery signal

DevEx is not a perk — it is the set of operating conditions that governs how fast and how safely change moves through your delivery system.

...cannot see, so it cannot govern it, so it cannot predict its impact. Investment hits the wrong problem. Leadership sees slow delivery and invests in hiring, in process, in a new project management tool. None...

1 DayIntensive

ConditionsNot satisfaction

Developer Experience Delivery Performance Feedback Loops Platform Engineering View Details

AI Adoption, Change & Project Delivery

Intermediate5-6 hoursAI adoption playbook + stakeholder engagement plan + delivery framework

Moving AI from exciting pilot to boring-but-valuable production. The people, the process, and the delivery discipline that turns AI potential into daily practice.

...organisation that invests seriously in AI. They run a pilot. The pilot works. The demo is impressive. Leadership is excited. And then — nothing. The tool sits there. The people who were supposed to use it...

2 DaysIntensive

Adoption PlaybookDeliverable

AI Adoption Change Management Project Delivery Stakeholder Engagement AI Culture View Details

Portfolio & Dependency Thinking

All levels — SA, EA, TS4-5 hoursPortfolio map template + dependency radar + investment alignment grid

How to see all systems, initiatives, and investments as a connected whole — understanding dependencies, shared capabilities, and how decisions in one place ripple across others.

...dependencies — is rarely assessed. Portfolio health assessment provides a structured view of the whole — so leadership can see where the portfolio is healthy, where it's at risk, and where investment is needed. Portfolio...

1 dayIntensive

StrategicPortfolio-level

Architecture Enterprise Context Portfolio Thinking Dependencies Investment Systems Thinking 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.

...any dimension is "not ready," don't adopt yet. Build readiness first. Communicating strategy — To leadership, to teams, and to vendors A strategy that lives only in the architect's head isn't a strategy...

1.5 DaysIntensive

StrategicEA · TS

Architecture Technology Strategy Business Strategy Direction Enterprise Context 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.

...traced back to a business objective? This measures how much strategic meaning survives the journey from leadership to delivery. Low: strategy is translated three times before it reaches engineering, and meaning...

1 DayIntensive

EvidenceNot feeling

Delivery Metrics DORA Architecture Maturity Governance View Details

Current State & Target State Architecture

All levels — SA, EA, TS4-5 hoursAs-is / to-be architecture canvas + transition state design + maturity scale + AI readiness assessment

How to document what exists today, define what must exist tomorrow, and design the transition states that get you there — the discipline of architecture that connects present reality to future goals.

...changes when the mental model clicks I've run this session with a financial services company where leadership defined a "digital-first" target state with no current state documentation. Programme of work...

1 dayIntensive

PracticalCanvas exercise

Architecture Enterprise Context Current State Target State Transformation Gap Analysis View Details

What is Generative AI?

Beginner3-4 hoursClear mental model of Generative AI + reference materials

Generative AI — what it actually is, how it works, what it's good at, and where it goes wrong. No hype. No math. Just clarity.

...clicks I've run this session with teams ranging from senior engineers to HR managers to executive leadership. The knowledge gap at the start is usually not about technical depth — it's about mental model. Most...

Half DayIntensive

Beginner FriendlyNo math required

Generative AI LLMs AI Fundamentals Machine Learning View Details

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