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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.

...bottleneck. A database technology choice needs deep review. An API endpoint design within established patterns doesn't. Match the review format to the decision significance: Here's how the types compare:...

Half-dayIntensive

PracticalSA · EA · TS

Architecture Governance Review Decision Making Authority View Details

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.

...ownership, flow, quality, access. Shared database — schema changes cascade. Integration — communication patterns, contracts. Synchronous calls — one slow service blocks all callers. Operational — deployability,...

1 DayIntensive

CriticalSA · EA · TS

Architecture Risk Compliance Security Governance Control Points View 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How to understand, measure, prioritise, and reduce technical debt — the accumulated cost of shortcuts, outdated decisions, and deferred maintenance.

...analysis. High cost — limits change. Architecture debt — wrong boundaries, shared databases, missing patterns. Detected by architecture assessment. Very high cost — requires restructuring. Infrastructure...

1 DayIntensive

StrategicSA · EA · TS

Architecture Technical Debt Rationalisation Modernisation Governance View 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.

...clunky. Sometimes those things are true. More often, the real blockers are human — and they fall into one of five patterns. Blocker What it sounds like What to do Fear "Is this going to take my job?" Address it...

2 DaysIntensive

Adoption PlaybookDeliverable

AI Adoption Change Management Project Delivery Stakeholder Engagement AI Culture View Details

Effective Prompt Engineering

Beginner to Advanced6-8 hoursFull prompt design framework + personal prompt library

Every major prompt engineering technique — from basic clarity to advanced agentic reasoning. Not a list of tips. A mental model you can apply to any task, any tool, any context.

...amounts of text produced by or about people in different roles, and the role assignment activates the patterns associated with that particular kind of expert. Useful role patterns: "You are an expert [domain]...

2 DaysIntensive

19 TechniquesComplete Coverage

Prompt Engineering LLMs Generative AI Productivity AI Workflows View 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.

...unclear authority. Three failure modes of undefined authority When decision rights are unclear, three patterns appear consistently. Decision Vacuum. Nobody is certain who holds authority for a class of...

1 DayIntensive

AltitudeWho decides what

Decision Rights Delegation Governance Decision Velocity View 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.

...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 of operating conditions. A...

1 DayIntensive

ConditionsNot satisfaction

Developer Experience Delivery Performance Feedback Loops Platform Engineering View Details

Emerging Technology Scanning

All levels — SA, EA, TS3-4 hoursTechnology radar template + horizon scanning process + hype vs signal evaluation criteria

How to monitor what is coming, filter signal from noise, and make deliberate decisions about when and how to adopt new technologies — before being forced to react.

...possible Quadrants (technology categories): Quadrant What it covers Techniques Architecture patterns, practices, methodologies Platforms Infrastructure, cloud, runtime platforms Tools Development...

Half-dayIntensive

PracticalSA · EA · TS

Architecture Technology Radar Horizon Scanning Innovation Strategy View Details

Platform Thinking

Intermediate to Advanced (SA, EA, TS)5-6 hoursPlatform strategy canvas + internal platform design guide + shared capability register

How to shift from building one-off solutions to building reusable internal platforms — shared foundations that allow teams to deliver independently without solving the same problems repeatedly.

...One platform, all teams consume Inconsistency Every team deploys differently Consistent deployment patterns Onboarding New team members learn each team's setup One platform, faster onboarding Security...

1 DayIntensive

CurrentSA · EA · TS

Architecture Platform Developer Experience Internal Platforms Self Service 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.

...around. Relationships — how the parts connect and interact. Dependencies, data flows, contracts, integration patterns. This is where most architecture fails — not in the components themselves, but in how they talk...

Half-dayIntensive

FoundationFor all roles

Architecture Foundations Decision Making View Details

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