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SA, EA — Intermediate5-6 hoursQuality attribute reference card + -ility prioritisation matrix

The non-functional characteristics that determine whether a system is truly fit for purpose — scalability, reliability, availability, performance, security, maintainability, and more.

...zero trust Maintainability Modularity, loose coupling, high cohesion, clear APIs, documentation, testing Interoperability Standard protocols, API contracts, data format standards, adapters, middleware...

1 DayIntensive

SA · EARoles

Architecture Quality Attributes Non Functional Requirements Design Tactics View Details

Risk, Compliance & Control Points

Intermediate to Advanced (SA, EA, TS)5-6 hoursRisk and control register template + compliance mapping guide + architecture risk heat map

How architecture manages technical risk and meets regulatory obligations — covering architectural risk analysis, compliance by design, privacy by design, security controls as decisions, operational risk, control points, and demonstrating compliance through architecture.

...minutes Redundancy What is single point of failure? Multi-region for critical services Recovery testing Can we actually recover? Quarterly disaster recovery drills Circuit breakers How do we handle...

1 DayIntensive

CriticalSA · EA · TS

Architecture Risk Compliance Security Governance Control Points View Details

Architecture Communication & Storytelling

Intermediate to Advanced (SA, EA, TS)5-6 hoursArchitecture communication playbook + executive presentation template + workshop facilitation guide

How to communicate architecture decisions so they are understood, adopted, and acted on — covering audience adaptation, executive communication, architecture papers, diagrams, workshop facilitation, and influence without authority.

...generating ideas without groupthink. Everyone writes ideas independently, then shares. Pre-mortem — stress-testing a decision. "It is 6 months from now and this failed. Why?" Trade-off matrix — comparing options...

1 DayIntensive

CriticalSA · EA · TS

Architecture Communication Storytelling Influence Stakeholders View Details

AI Policy, Security & Organisational Controls

Beginner to Intermediate4-5 hoursAI policy checklist + security controls map + incident response starter template

Building and enforcing AI policy — the practical mechanisms that turn ethical principles into enforceable organisational rules. Data security, access controls, audit trails, and incident response.

...controls Employment law AI in hiring must not discriminate; increasing disclosure requirements Bias testing, human oversight in hiring AI, candidate disclosure The compliance mapping process: inventory...

1 DayIntensive

Beginner FriendlyNo legal background required

AI Policy AI Security Organisational Controls AI Governance Data Security Compliance AI Fluency View 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.

...leakage Training data contains information that won't exist at prediction time — model looks great in testing, fails in production Proper train/test splitting; temporal separation 2 Label bias Human annotators...

1.5 DaysIntensive

Data ReadinessAssessment

Data Quality Data Governance Data Architecture Feature Engineering Data Pipelines RAG Vector Databases GenAI Data AI Fluency View Details

Future of AI

Intermediate to Senior Leaders3-4 hoursAI horizon scan + strategic implications analysis + preparation roadmap

What's coming in AI — multimodal models, on-device AI, open-source momentum, protocols, regulation, and the shift to AI-native organisations. See around the corner without falling for hype.

...(classify each use case by risk tier), documentation (maintain records of training data, model design, testing), human oversight (ensure humans can override AI decisions), bias monitoring (regular testing...

Half DayIntensive

Horizon ScanDeliverable

Future of AI AI Trends Multimodal AI AI Regulation Emerging Technology View Details

Application, Integration, API, Interface, Data & Process Design

Intermediate to Advanced (SA, EA)6-8 hoursIntegration design playbook + API design standards + data movement pattern guide

How the components of a solution are structured internally, how they communicate with each other, and how they connect to the data and processes they depend on.

...approval, payment, notification) was in one codebase. A change to the payment flow required regression testing the entire claims process. Data was shared across all modules — a schema change in payments broke...

2 DaysIntensive

ComprehensiveSA · EA

Architecture Solution Design Integration API Design Data Design 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.

...health assessment — identifying risks and investment priorities, portfolio-aware decision exercise — testing real decisions for ripple effects, and portfolio map template + dependency radar + investment...

1 dayIntensive

StrategicPortfolio-level

Architecture Enterprise Context Portfolio Thinking Dependencies Investment Systems Thinking View Details

AI Capabilities, Limitations & Use Cases

Beginner to Intermediate3-4 hoursTask-to-AI fit judgment + reference materials

What AI is genuinely good at, where it will let you down, and how to match the right task to the right tool. The judgment you need before you touch a prompt.

...leaders and executives The most valuable thing AI can do for senior leaders isn't drafting — it's stress-testing. Ask it to argue against your plan. Ask it what you're missing. Ask it to steelman the opposing...

Half DayIntensive

Beginner FriendlyNo math required

Generative AI AI Capabilities AI Limitations Hallucination Use Cases AI Fluency View Details

Technology Leadership & Organizational Excellence

Intermediate to AdvancedLeadership roadmap and team enablement plan

Learn to lead high-performance engineering organizations with clear decision rights, distributed leadership, and AI-augmented team management for the future of work.

...Manager" (AI use case identification, ROI measurement) QA Engineer → "Quality Engineer for AI Systems" (AI testing, bias detection, robustness) Key technical terms: Term Meaning Team Topology How teams...

2 DaysWorkshop

FoundationFor all leadership roles

Leadership Organizational Design Decision Rights AI Augmented Teams View Details

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