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Investment & Prioritisation
Advanced (EA, TS)5-6 hoursInvestment prioritisation model + business case guide (including TCO and unit economics) + sequencing criteria

How to decide which technology initiatives get funded, in what order, and why — connecting architecture to financial decisions and business outcomes.

...guesswork. With it, sequencing is defensible. What architecture adds to prioritisation: Dependency knowledge — what must exist before what. Foundation identification — which investments are platforms...

1 DayIntensive
StrategicEA · TS
ArchitectureInvestmentPrioritisationBusiness CaseStrategyFinOpsView Details
Capability Mapping & Business Outcomes
All levels — SA, EA, TS4-5 hoursBusiness capability map template + capability-to-outcome linkage model

How to build business capability maps, connect them to technology, and link capabilities to strategic outcomes — the bridge between business strategy and technical architecture.

...Navigation Start here — What capabilities are Building a capability map Connecting capabilities to systems Connecting capabilities to outcomes Capability heat maps Using capability maps in decisions Common...

1.5 daysIntensive
PracticalMap-building exercise
ArchitectureCapability MappingBusiness StrategyEnterprise ContextBusiness OutcomesView Details
Data & AI Direction
Intermediate to Advanced (SA, EA, TS)5-6 hoursData and AI direction framework + AI readiness assessment + governance overlay

How data strategy and AI direction connect to architecture — covering data quality, governance, data architecture for AI, AI enablement, responsible AI, data products, data mesh, and building a data and AI roadmap.

...direction is the discipline of treating data as a governed asset and designing the architecture that AI systems consume — not building AI on top of unmanaged, ungoverned, low-quality data. Data strategy covers...

1.5 DaysIntensive
CurrentSA · EA · TS
ArchitectureData StrategyAIData GovernanceData MeshData ProductsView Details
Data and AI
Intermediate4-6 hoursData readiness assessment + governance framework + pipeline blueprint

The data foundations that make AI work. Data quality, governance, architecture, pipelines, and the GenAI shift from training to retrieval. Most AI failures are data failures — learn the patterns and prevent them.

...millions in AI models and platforms while neglecting the data that feeds them. They build sophisticated systems on top of messy, siloed, ungoverned data — and wonder why the results are unreliable. The hard...

1.5 DaysIntensive
Data ReadinessAssessment
Data QualityData GovernanceData ArchitectureFeature EngineeringData PipelinesRAGVector DatabasesGenAI DataAI FluencyView Details
Cognitive Load & Team Interfaces
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.

...cognitive load is the total set of things it must hold in mind to do its job: the domains it owns, the systems it operates, the tooling it maintains, the interfaces it must understand to integrate, and the...

1 DayIntensive
CapacityWhat a team can hold
Cognitive LoadTeam TopologiesPlatform EngineeringDeveloper ExperienceView 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.

...architecture. Then deadlines arrive. Product features take priority. Refactoring is postponed. Months later, systems are harder to change, velocity slows, incident risk rises, and engineers grow frustrated. Eventually...

1 DayIntensive
ContinuousNot a project
Technical DebtArchitecture EvolutionProduct DeliveryGovernanceView Details
AI Tools, Landscape & Platforms
Beginner to Intermediate3-4 hoursPersonal AI tools map + selection framework + team stack recommendation

The AI tools landscape — what the major platforms are, how they actually differ, and how to choose the right one for the right job. Stop chasing every new launch. Start making deliberate choices.

...they're using diffusion models — a completely different architecture. For voice, neural text-to-speech systems. For code completion integrated into your editor, the tool has access to your entire codebase...

Half DayIntensive
Beginner FriendlyNo technical background required
AI ToolsAI PlatformsGenerative AIAI LandscapeLLMsAI FluencyView 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.

...here — the law you are already obeying Conway's Law states it plainly: "Organisations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these...

1 DayIntensive
BoundariesStructure as design
Conway's LawTeam TopologiesOrganisational DesignTeam BoundariesView 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.

...thousands of examples. Not millions. Trillions of words — essentially a large chunk of written human knowledge: books, articles, websites, academic papers, code, conversations. Dial 3 — More computing...

Half DayIntensive
Beginner FriendlyNo math required
Generative AILLMsAI FundamentalsMachine LearningView Details
Requirements, Constraints, Trade-offs & Compromise
All levels — SA, EA, TS5-6 hoursTrade-off framework + constraint register template + requirements classification guide

The art of making the best possible architectural decision given what is required, what is constrained, and what must be sacrificed.

...limits. Common constraints: Budget — how much money is available. Timeline — when it must be delivered. Existing systems — what already exists and can't be replaced. Regulations — what the law requires. Team skills...

1 DayIntensive
PracticeReal decisions
ArchitectureFoundationsRequirementsTrade OffsDecision MakingView Details
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