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Architecture Governance
Intermediate to Advanced (SA, EA, TS)5-6 hoursGovernance model canvas + architecture principles register + escalation path template

How to design, implement, and measure architecture governance — the mechanisms that ensure decisions are made consistently, applied correctly, and aligned with strategy.

...prefer simplicity." A good principle: "We prefer the simplest solution that meets the need because complexity increases cost of change. This means we choose monolith over microservices when a single team...

1 DayIntensive
PracticalSA · EA · TS
ArchitectureGovernancePrinciplesDecision MakingControlView Details
Build / Buy / Partner / Participate — Ecosystem Strategy
Intermediate to Advanced (SA, EA, TS)5-6 hoursBuild/buy/partner/participate decision framework + vendor and ecosystem evaluation scorecard + exit and switching cost analysis template

How to decide what to build, what to buy, what to access through partners, and what to participate in through ecosystems — covering differentiation vs commodity analysis, vendor evaluation, total cost of ownership, interoperability velocity, exit strategy, and lock-in risk.

...commodity, everyone needs it → Buy (Auth0, Cognito). Payment processing — commodity with regulatory complexity → Partner (Stripe, Adyen). Logging and monitoring — commodity, solved problem → Buy (Datadog,...

1 DayIntensive
StrategicSA · EA · TS
ArchitectureSourcing StrategyEcosystemBuild vs BuyVendor ManagementStrategyView Details
Decision Rights & Delegation
Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, Directors, CTO, VP Engineering3-4 hoursDecision rights map by altitude and domain, with every gap, overlap and delay node named

Decisions made at the wrong altitude are the commonest source of both bottleneck and drift — which makes delegation a design problem, not a trust problem.

...third-column answers name someone below the person who actually decided, your escalations are not about complexity. They are about unclear authority. Three failure modes of undefined authority When decision...

1 DayIntensive
AltitudeWho decides what
Decision RightsDelegationGovernanceDecision VelocityView 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.

...features? Do architecture reviews reward structural improvement? If feature delivery always increases complexity, technical debt will eventually dominate development. That is not a risk — it is arithmetic. The...

1 DayIntensive
ContinuousNot a project
Technical DebtArchitecture EvolutionProduct DeliveryGovernanceView Details
Automation & Agentic Systems
Intermediate to Advanced (SA, EA, TS)6-7 hoursAutomation opportunity map + agent architecture blueprint + MCP/A2A integration guide + Agentic Risk & Cost Framework

How AI-powered architectures that plan, act, and use tools autonomously are reshaping integration and workflow — covering agentic patterns, MCP and A2A protocols, orchestration frameworks, human-in-the-loop design, guardrails, observability, and economic risk management.

...workloads need the same architecture. Using a multi-agent system for a simple task adds unnecessary complexity. Using a single agent for a complex, multi-domain task leads to hallucination and failure. Three...

1.5 DaysIntensive
CurrentSA · EA · TS
ArchitectureAI AgentsAgentic SystemsMCPA2AAutomationOrchestrationView 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.

...thinking does this task actually require? Is it straightforward but time-consuming — or is there genuine complexity here that needs to be worked through? Platform awareness is about knowing what the AI tools...

2 DaysIntensive
4 CompetenciesComplete Framework
AI FluencyGenerative AIProductivityAI WorkflowsResponsible AIView 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.

...one response. Prove the integration works. Expand from there — add capabilities, add services, add complexity. The skeleton stays working at every step. Phase delivery by dependency and risk — foundations...

1 DayIntensive
PracticalSA · EA · TS
ArchitectureSolution DesignDeliveryAgileRunwayView Details
AI Knowledge Systems — RAG, Search, Memory & Internal Knowledge
Intermediate4-5 hoursKnowledge system map + RAG decision framework + memory design checklist

Many useful AI systems are not smarter because the model is smarter. They are smarter because the system can retrieve, search, remember, and ground itself in the right knowledge at the right time.

...evidence Do not use it as a reflex. If the task is generic reasoning or transformation, retrieval may add complexity without adding value. Internal knowledge design Knowledge systems fail when organisations...

1 DaySystems Thinking
Knowledge DesignPractical
RAGSearchMemoryKnowledge SystemsInternal KnowledgeView Details
How LLMs Work
Beginner to Intermediate4-6 hoursWorking mental model + reference materials

What actually happens inside a Large Language Model — from the moment you type a prompt to the moment it responds. No math. No fluff. Just a clear picture you can hold in your head.

...large part of why scale matters — more layers means more passes, which means more capacity to handle complexity. It's not magic. It's depth. Each layer consists of two parts running in sequence: the attention...

2 DaysIntensive
Beginner FriendlyNo math required
LLMsMachine LearningTransformersGenerative AIView 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.

...multiple teams; application concerns serve one. When application logic enters the platform, it accretes complexity that one team needs and every other team pays for. Does this capability already exist — in...

1 DayIntensive
AdoptionNot feature count
Platform EngineeringInternal Developer PlatformProduct GovernanceGolden PathsView Details
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