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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.

...Navigation Start here — From systems thinking to portfolio thinking What the portfolio contains Dependency mapping Impact on sequencing Shared capabilities Portfolio health Making portfolio-aware decisions Putting it...

1 dayIntensive
StrategicPortfolio-level
ArchitectureEnterprise ContextPortfolio ThinkingDependenciesInvestmentSystems ThinkingView 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.

...not in ETL, not at consumption. Source system → Quality Gate 1: Schema validation → Quality Gate 2: Business rules → Quality Gate 3: Completeness check → Quality Gate 4: Freshness check → Data Lake/Warehouse...

1.5 DaysIntensive
CurrentSA · EA · TS
ArchitectureData StrategyAIData GovernanceData MeshData ProductsView 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.

..."£100K/month team that owns product Y and delivers outcomes." Outcomes measured: customer adoption, revenue impact, operational health. Not measured: lines of code, features delivered, project milestones. Product...

1 DayIntensive
StrategicEA · TS
ArchitectureOperating ModelConway's LawTeam TopologiesPlatform TeamsStrategyView 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.

...engineering. Quantify the cost of each — "speed now costs us X weeks of rework." Innovation vs stability — business vs operations. Present risk and reward — "innovation has Y% chance of Z impact." Centralisation...

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.

...missing reviews, no CI/CD, manual testing. Detected by process audit. Medium cost — quality and speed impact. Knowledge debt — key-person dependencies, no cross-training. Detected by team assessment. High...

1 DayIntensive
StrategicSA · EA · TS
ArchitectureTechnical DebtRationalisationModernisationGovernanceView 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.

...Feature logic — that's the team's responsibility. UI design details — that's design's responsibility. Business rules — that's product's responsibility. How far ahead should runway be? Too short — 1 sprint...

1 DayIntensive
PracticalSA · EA · TS
ArchitectureSolution DesignDeliveryAgileRunwayView Details
Developer Experience as a Control System
CTOs, Engineering Leads, Platform Engineering Teams, Engineering Managers3-4 hoursA delivery friction map across four sprints, one named constraint pillar, and a traced DX-to-delivery signal

DevEx is not a perk — it is the set of operating conditions that governs how fast and how safely change moves through your delivery system.

...programmes invest in the right things for the wrong reasons — so the metrics they move are not the ones the business cares about. Three patterns account for nearly all of it. They measure satisfaction instead...

1 DayIntensive
ConditionsNot satisfaction
Developer ExperienceDelivery PerformanceFeedback LoopsPlatform EngineeringView 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.

...human-only vs AI vs collaborative Establish guardrails — ensure AI operates within ethical, legal, and business constraints Build AI literacy — ensure team understands AI capabilities/limitations Foster psychological...

2 DaysWorkshop
FoundationFor all leadership roles
LeadershipOrganizational DesignDecision RightsAI Augmented TeamsView Details
Current State & Target State Architecture
All levels — SA, EA, TS4-5 hoursAs-is / to-be architecture canvas + transition state design + maturity scale + AI readiness assessment

How to document what exists today, define what must exist tomorrow, and design the transition states that get you there — the discipline of architecture that connects present reality to future goals.

...including the problems, debt, and constraints. Target state describes what must exist to meet future business needs. Transition states are the realistic intermediate steps. The gap between current and target...

1 dayIntensive
PracticalCanvas exercise
ArchitectureEnterprise ContextCurrent StateTarget StateTransformationGap AnalysisView 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.

...which dimension would you score lowest? Can you trace a sprint ticket from last month back to a named business objective? When did governance last operate continuously, rather than waiting for the next...

1 DayIntensive
EvidenceNot feeling
Delivery MetricsDORAArchitecture MaturityGovernanceView Details
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