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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.

...Architecture 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 across...

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

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.

...before 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.

...cost 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

Common Architecture Patterns

Intermediate (SA, EA)5-7 hoursPattern selection guide + pattern comparison matrix + anti-pattern catalogue

Proven, reusable solutions to recurring structural problems — each with known trade-offs that make it suited to some contexts and unsuitable for others.

...boundaries, enforce those boundaries, then extract to services when a module genuinely needs independent deployment. Microservices solve team autonomy and independent scaling — but they trade simplicity for...

1.5 DaysIntensive

PracticalSA · EA

Architecture Solution Design Patterns Microservices Event Driven View 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.

...systems require new architectural patterns — orchestration, memory, tool use, human oversight. MCP (Model Context Protocol) and A2A (Agent-to-Agent) are the emerging standards for agent integration. Human...

1.5 DaysIntensive

CurrentSA · EA · TS

Architecture AI Agents Agentic Systems MCP A2A Automation Orchestration View 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.

...Option A Option B Trade-off Data consistency Strong consistency Eventual consistency Latency vs accuracy Deployment Monolith Microservices Simplicity vs independence Integration Synchronous Asynchronous Simplicity...

1 DayIntensive

PracticeReal decisions

Architecture Foundations Requirements Trade Offs Decision Making View Details

Standards & Reference Architectures

Intermediate (SA, EA)4-5 hoursReference architecture library starter + standards register + architecture principles catalogue

How to create, govern, and operationalise architecture standards and reference architectures — the agreed patterns and structures that create consistency, reduce duplication, and accelerate delivery at scale.

...layers "We need a microservices foundation" Microservices reference — service mesh, observability, deployment pipeline What a reference architecture includes: Structure — the components and how they connect....

1 dayIntensive

PracticalStandards exercise

Architecture Enterprise Context Standards Reference Architecture Governance Consistency View Details

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