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AI Procurement, Vendor Evaluation & Tool Selection

Beginner to Intermediate3-4 hoursVendor evaluation scorecard + tool selection checklist + risk review template

Choosing AI tools is not a beauty contest. Learn how to evaluate vendors, compare capabilities, assess risk, avoid lock-in, and buy systems that your organisation can actually govern and adopt.

...pressure not to be left behind. Internal stakeholders bring different priorities: security wants control, delivery teams want speed, finance wants clarity, and end users want the tool that feels easiest. In...

Half DayDecision Focused

Vendor SelectionPractical

AI Procurement Vendor Evaluation Tool Selection Platform Strategy AI Governance 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.

..."This reduces our outage risk by enabling systems to fail independently. It also accelerates feature delivery by removing integration bottlenecks." CTO "We are moving from synchronous REST calls to Kafka-based...

1 DayIntensive

CriticalSA · EA · TS

Architecture Communication Storytelling Influence Stakeholders View Details

Architecture Governance

Intermediate to Advanced (SA, EA, TS)5-6 hoursGovernance model canvas + architecture principles register + escalation path template

How to design, implement, and measure architecture governance — the mechanisms that ensure decisions are made consistently, applied correctly, and aligned with strategy.

...decisions, architecture drift, surprises in production, and rework. The cost is higher ops, slower delivery, and security gaps. Governance is how architecture turns principles into practice — through...

1 DayIntensive

PracticalSA · EA · TS

Architecture Governance Principles Decision Making Control 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.

...translation guide: Technical need Business case translation "Refactor the monolith" "Reduce feature delivery from 6 weeks to 2 weeks — 3x velocity improvement" "Adopt event-driven integration" "Decouple...

1 DayIntensive

StrategicEA · TS

Architecture Investment Prioritisation Business Case Strategy FinOps View Details

Operating Model Choices

Advanced (EA, TS)5-6 hoursOperating model design canvas + team topology guide + Conway's Law application worksheet + Communication Structure Heatmap

How the structure of technology teams shapes the structure of the systems they build — covering Conway's Law, centralised vs federated models, platform teams, product operating models, team topologies, and designing the organisation that produces the architecture you want.

...domain teams — autonomy within guardrails. Implementation owned by stream teams — full ownership of delivery. Transitioning from centralised to federated: Centralised — everything through one body. Delegate...

1 DayIntensive

StrategicEA · TS

Architecture Operating Model Conway's Law Team Topologies Platform Teams Strategy View 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.

...Decision-maker Technology direction High Supportive Present directly VP Engineering Decision-maker Delivery speed High Cautious Pre-align on trade-offs Security lead Influencer Compliance Medium Concerned...

1 DayIntensive

StrategicSA · EA · TS

Architecture Stakeholder Management Politics Influence Conflict Resolution 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.

...technology cost. Tracked against budget. Active programmes — number of change initiatives. Shouldn't exceed delivery capacity. Platform adoption — teams using shared platforms. >70%. Dependency density — average...

1 dayIntensive

StrategicPortfolio-level

Architecture Enterprise Context Portfolio Thinking Dependencies Investment Systems Thinking View Details

Technology, Infrastructure, Cloud & Security Design

Intermediate to Advanced (SA, EA)6-8 hoursInfrastructure decision framework + cloud pattern reference + security controls map

Where abstract architecture meets physical reality — choosing the platforms, compute, networking, and security controls that make the solution work at scale.

...Gap Compute Storage Networking Environments If environments aren't isolated or automated, you have a delivery risk. Cloud patterns — Multi-region, auto-scaling, serverless, managed services Cloud providers...

2 DaysIntensive

PracticalSA · EA

Architecture Solution Design Cloud Infrastructure Security FinOps View Details

AI Knowledge Systems — RAG, Search, Memory & Internal Knowledge

Intermediate4-5 hoursKnowledge system map + RAG decision framework + memory design checklist

Many useful AI systems are not smarter because the model is smarter. They are smarter because the system can retrieve, search, remember, and ground itself in the right knowledge at the right time.

...current the content is. A beautifully designed system grounded in outdated material becomes a confident delivery mechanism for yesterday's truth. Authority is about which sources the system should trust most....

1 DaySystems Thinking

Knowledge DesignPractical

RAG Search Memory Knowledge Systems Internal Knowledge View Details

AI Use Case Discovery & Prioritization

Beginner to Intermediate4-5 hoursAI use case portfolio + prioritisation matrix + pilot shortlist

The hardest AI question is often not how to build, but what to build first. Learn how to find real use cases, assess fit, sequence experiments, and avoid expensive distractions.

...prioritisation lens is a 2x2: Value: How much benefit would success create? Feasibility: How realistic is delivery given data, workflow, skills, and risk? Use cases with high value and high feasibility are natural...

1 DayWorkshop

Portfolio DesignPractical

AI Use Cases Prioritization AI Strategy Portfolio Management Value Realization View Details

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