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Review Forums & Decision Authority
Intermediate (SA, EA, TS)3-4 hoursArchitecture board design guide + review charter template + decision rights matrix

How to design, run, and improve architecture review forums — the structured spaces where decisions are evaluated, challenged, approved, and communicated.

...ADR. Decision-maker or architect. Consulted — provides input before the decision. Domain architects, security, platform team. Informed — notified after the decision. Affected teams, stakeholders. Board...

Half-dayIntensive
PracticalSA · EA · TS
ArchitectureGovernanceReviewDecision MakingAuthorityView Details
Stakeholder Management & Politics
Intermediate to Advanced (SA, EA, TS)5-6 hoursStakeholder map template + conflict resolution framework + executive alignment guide

How to navigate organisational dynamics, manage conflicting priorities, resolve decision deadlocks, and build executive alignment — because the best architecture recommendation fails without stakeholder alignment.

...Present directly VP Engineering Decision-maker Delivery speed High Cautious Pre-align on trade-offs Security lead Influencer Compliance Medium Concerned Consult and address concerns Team lead Affected...

1 DayIntensive
StrategicSA · EA · TS
ArchitectureStakeholder ManagementPoliticsInfluenceConflict ResolutionView 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How to understand, measure, prioritise, and reduce technical debt — the accumulated cost of shortcuts, outdated decisions, and deferred maintenance.

...Critical Domain architect TD-002 Bit rot Running on Java 11 — EOL Dec 2024 All Java services Medium — security patches stop Fixed — deadline approaching High Platform team TD-003 Deliberate No caching...

1 DayIntensive
StrategicSA · EA · TS
ArchitectureTechnical DebtRationalisationModernisationGovernanceView 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.

...Automation Workflow orchestration, self-service RPA, platform automation, IaC "Achieve SOC 2 compliance" Security controls Zero-trust, audit logging, encryption IAM, SIEM, key management The strategy brief...

1.5 DaysIntensive
StrategicEA · TS
ArchitectureTechnology StrategyBusiness StrategyDirectionEnterprise ContextView 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.

...does this well enough to have meaningfully changed how software gets written. It's not infallible. Security-sensitive code, complex architecture decisions, and anything you haven't read and understood...

Half DayIntensive
Beginner FriendlyNo math required
Generative AIAI CapabilitiesAI LimitationsHallucinationUse CasesAI FluencyView 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.

...constraints for the entire organisation Architecture principles, approved cloud providers, mandatory security standards Domain Decisions that govern a bounded business or technology domain Domain platform...

1 DayIntensive
AltitudeWho decides what
Decision RightsDelegationGovernanceDecision VelocityView 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.

...expressed twice. Governed as infrastructure, not as product. Platform decisions pass through cost, security, compliance and architecture review. Those gates ensure the platform is safe, compliant and...

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

...spend money) Operational processes (how work gets done) Customer commitments (promises to customers) Security exceptions (deviations from security standards) Step 2: Define roles Common roles: Individual...

2 DaysWorkshop
FoundationFor all leadership roles
LeadershipOrganizational DesignDecision RightsAI Augmented TeamsView 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.

...— access to models, training data. Contribute: models, data, feedback. Industry consortium — shared security, compliance frameworks. Contribute: best practices, audit results. The participation evaluation:...

1 DayIntensive
StrategicSA · EA · TS
ArchitectureSourcing StrategyEcosystemBuild vs BuyVendor ManagementStrategyView 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.

..."we need the event bus configured before we can publish events." Decision dependencies — "we need the security model approved before we can design authentication." Dependencies discovered during sprint...

1 DayIntensive
PracticalSA · EA · TS
ArchitectureSolution DesignDeliveryAgileRunwayView Details
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