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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.

...build. A platform team forms, studies the engineering organisation, and identifies the common patterns — deployment friction, environment inconsistency, observability gaps. They build a CI/CD pipeline, a service...

1 DayIntensive

AdoptionNot feature count

Platform Engineering Internal Developer Platform Product Governance Golden Paths View Details

Technical Debt & Rationalisation

Intermediate to Advanced (SA, EA, TS)5-6 hoursTechnical debt taxonomy + rationalisation prioritisation framework + modernisation criteria

How to understand, measure, prioritise, and reduce technical debt — the accumulated cost of shortcuts, outdated decisions, and deferred maintenance.

...backlog; repay before interest grows Accidental Unintended consequence discovered later "The data model doesn't support this use case" Refactor when discovered; document learning Bit rot Technology...

1 DayIntensive

StrategicSA · EA · TS

Architecture Technical Debt Rationalisation Modernisation Governance 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.

...strategy answers "What cloud?" AWS, Azure, or GCP How we use cloud — patterns, governance, cost model "What database?" PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, or CosmosDB How data is owned, accessed, and governed...

1.5 DaysIntensive

StrategicEA · TS

Architecture Technology Strategy Business Strategy Direction Enterprise Context View Details

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.

...that reduce customer churn by 15%" "Migrate to cloud" "Reduce infrastructure cost by 30% and improve deployment frequency by 5x" "Pay down technical debt" "Recover 30% of engineering capacity currently...

1 DayIntensive

StrategicEA · TS

Architecture Investment Prioritisation Business Case Strategy FinOps 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.

...well-established baseline for measuring software delivery performance. It asks four questions, and only four: Deployment frequency — how often do you ship to production? Lead time for changes — how long from commit...

1 DayIntensive

EvidenceNot feeling

Delivery Metrics DORA Architecture Maturity Governance View 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.

...building AI. AI enablement — RAG, embeddings, vector databases Architects don't need to build AI models — but they need to understand the key AI concepts well enough to design the architecture that...

1.5 DaysIntensive

CurrentSA · EA · TS

Architecture Data Strategy AI Data Governance Data Mesh Data Products View Details

Quality Attributes / -ilities

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.

...breaking things is on a path to legacy. The ISO 25010 standard defines quality attributes in a structured model: Quality in Use — effectiveness, efficiency, satisfaction, freedom from risk, context coverage....

1 DayIntensive

SA · EARoles

Architecture Quality Attributes Non Functional Requirements Design Tactics 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.

...of reversing it: Decision Cost to reverse Why? e.g. Chose PostgreSQL over MongoDB High — data model, queries, team skills all tied to it e.g. Named this service 'OrderService' Low — find and replace,...

Half-dayIntensive

FoundationFor all roles

Architecture Foundations Decision Making 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.

...tool: where is the data processed — cloud region, country, data residency compliance. Is it used for model training — consumer tools often use inputs to improve the model, enterprise agreements exclude...

1 DayIntensive

Beginner FriendlyNo legal background required

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

Execution Stability & Structured Refactoring

CTOs, Engineering Directors, Principal Engineers, Engineering Managers3-4 hoursA classified structural risk map — your top friction modules sorted into dicing, slicing and peeling with a governance rule attached

Delivery slows because structural entropy accumulates unmeasured. Classify refactoring into dicing, slicing and peeling to restore predictability.

...different levels of intervention, and each serves a different risk horizon. The Structured Refactoring Model uses three layers. The first is the smallest. Dicing addresses internal code clarity without changing...

1 DayIntensive

LayersNot cleanup

Execution Stability Refactoring Delivery Predictability Structural Risk View Details

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