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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.

...manage technical risk and meet regulatory obligations. The structure of a system — its boundaries, integrations, data flows, and access controls — determines its exposure. I've seen teams wait until the...

1 DayIntensive
CriticalSA · EA · TS
ArchitectureRiskComplianceSecurityGovernanceControl PointsView 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.

...leave? Community and ecosystem — is there support? Regulatory compliance — does it meet requirements? Integration with existing stack — does it fit? Scalability characteristics — how does it scale? Support...

2 DaysIntensive
PracticalSA · EA
ArchitectureSolution DesignCloudInfrastructureSecurityFinOpsView Details
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.

...to evaluate beyond the demo The major decision criteria Build, buy, or blend Lock-in, security, and integration Running pilots that reveal the truth How to run a sane selection process The politics of...

Half DayDecision Focused
Vendor SelectionPractical
AI ProcurementVendor EvaluationTool SelectionPlatform StrategyAI GovernanceView 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.

...truth: most of the work in a successful AI project is data work. Data discovery, data cleaning, data integration, data governance. The model itself is often the easy part. Challenge What it means for...

1.5 DaysIntensive
Data ReadinessAssessment
Data QualityData GovernanceData ArchitectureFeature EngineeringData PipelinesRAGVector DatabasesGenAI DataAI FluencyView Details
Cognitive Load & Team Interfaces
VP Engineering, Platform Leads, Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers3-4 hoursCognitive load assessment per team, an interaction model, and a platform team charter naming what the platform does and does not own

A team can only hold so much — and the interaction modes between teams are what decide whether that limit is respected or quietly exceeded.

...inside a team: "We own eleven services and can explain four of them." "Nobody here knows how that integration works any more — we just restart it." "Half the sprint is answering other teams' questions." "We...

1 DayIntensive
CapacityWhat a team can hold
Cognitive LoadTeam TopologiesPlatform EngineeringDeveloper ExperienceView Details
Conway's Law & Team Boundaries
CTO, VP Engineering, Engineering Directors, Principal Engineers3-4 hoursTwo-layer boundary map — the official org design set against actual incident load, with every structural gap named

Your architecture mirrors your communication structure whether you designed it that way or not — which makes team boundaries an architectural decision.

...in a room." "We can't release until the other team's release goes out." "Every feature turns into an integration meeting." "The architecture says independent services, but nothing ships independently." Consider...

1 DayIntensive
BoundariesStructure as design
Conway's LawTeam TopologiesOrganisational DesignTeam BoundariesView 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.

...specs, SLAs Variable Contractual Take one architecture decision — "We are migrating to event-driven integration" — and translate it for each audience: Audience Translation CEO "This reduces our outage...

1 DayIntensive
CriticalSA · EA · TS
ArchitectureCommunicationStorytellingInfluenceStakeholdersView 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.

...ERP, custom services Platforms Shared foundations that multiple teams consume Cloud landing zone, integration platform, data platform Programmes / Initiatives Time-bounded efforts to change the portfolio...

1 dayIntensive
StrategicPortfolio-level
ArchitectureEnterprise ContextPortfolio ThinkingDependenciesInvestmentSystems ThinkingView Details
AI Adoption, Change & Project Delivery
Intermediate5-6 hoursAI adoption playbook + stakeholder engagement plan + delivery framework

Moving AI from exciting pilot to boring-but-valuable production. The people, the process, and the delivery discipline that turns AI potential into daily practice.

...organisations tend to blame the technology. The model wasn't accurate enough. The tool was too hard to use. The integration was clunky. Sometimes those things are true. More often, the real blockers are human — and...

2 DaysIntensive
Adoption PlaybookDeliverable
AI AdoptionChange ManagementProject DeliveryStakeholder EngagementAI CultureView Details
AI Tools, Landscape & Platforms
Beginner to Intermediate3-4 hoursPersonal AI tools map + selection framework + team stack recommendation

The AI tools landscape — what the major platforms are, how they actually differ, and how to choose the right one for the right job. Stop chasing every new launch. Start making deliberate choices.

...lengthy material or need precision Google Gemini 3 Multimodal tasks, massive context, Google Workspace integration You live in Google's ecosystem or need image/audio/video understanding Meta Llama 4 Open-source...

Half DayIntensive
Beginner FriendlyNo technical background required
AI ToolsAI PlatformsGenerative AIAI LandscapeLLMsAI FluencyView Details
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