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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.

...for small organisations but creates bottlenecks at scale. Federated works for large organisations but risks fragmentation. The operating model sits on a spectrum from fully centralised to fully federated:...

1 DayIntensive

StrategicEA · TS

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

...deployment is manageable. At scale — 10, 20, 50 teams — it becomes wasteful, inconsistent, and a security risk. Platform thinking solves the scale problem. The cost of not having a platform grows with team count:...

1 DayIntensive

CurrentSA · EA · TS

Architecture Platform Developer Experience Internal Platforms Self Service 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.

...platforms are shared — shared capability identification. What is connected to what — dependency and risk management. The portfolio register: Asset Type Owner Health Cost Capabilities Served Dependencies...

1 dayIntensive

StrategicPortfolio-level

Architecture Enterprise Context Portfolio Thinking Dependencies Investment Systems Thinking View Details

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.

...domain Domain architect + peers 1 hour Reviewed ADR Architecture Board Cross-domain, strategic, high-risk Board members 1-2 hours Approved/rejected ADR The async review process is simple: author drafts...

Half-dayIntensive

PracticalSA · EA · TS

Architecture Governance Review Decision Making Authority 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.

...Vendor relationship — "Our account rep promised us this." Technology choices constrained by politics. Risk aversion — "We tried that before and it failed." Innovation blocked by history. Architecture exists...

1 DayIntensive

StrategicSA · EA · TS

Architecture Stakeholder Management Politics Influence Conflict Resolution View Details

AI in the Workplace

Beginner to Intermediate3-4 hoursPersonal AI workflow map + role-specific use case library

Applying AI in real work contexts — across roles, tasks, and teams. Move from knowing what AI is to using it every day, without hype, without fear, and without wasting time on the wrong things.

...to decisions and actions, a research thread compressed into a briefing — these are high-value, low-risk uses of AI, as long as you check that nothing important was dropped. Research is where hallucination...

Half DayIntensive

Beginner FriendlyNo math required

AI in the Workplace Generative AI Productivity AI Fluency Use Cases AI Workflows View 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.

...data readiness scorecard Rate your data 1-5 on each dimension. Your lowest score is your biggest data risk. That's where to invest first. Dimension Score (1-5) Evidence Action if below 3 Availability Quality...

1.5 DaysIntensive

Data ReadinessAssessment

Data Quality Data Governance Data Architecture Feature Engineering Data Pipelines RAG Vector Databases GenAI Data AI Fluency View Details

How to Think With AI

Beginner to Advanced5-7 hoursPersonal AI Fluency framework + working habits

AI Fluency — the four competencies that separate people who use AI from people who think with it. Delegation, Description, Discernment, Diligence. Master these and everything else follows.

...Diligence Am I using AI in a way I can stand behind? Bias, misinformation, ethical failures, legal risk These aren't four separate activities you do in sequence. They're four lenses you bring to every...

2 DaysIntensive

4 CompetenciesComplete Framework

AI Fluency Generative AI Productivity AI Workflows Responsible AI View Details

Application, Integration, API, Interface, Data & Process Design

Intermediate to Advanced (SA, EA)6-8 hoursIntegration design playbook + API design standards + data movement pattern guide

How the components of a solution are structured internally, how they communicate with each other, and how they connect to the data and processes they depend on.

...chatty GraphQL Complex queries, mobile clients Flexible queries, single endpoint Caching complexity, N+1 risk, learning curve gRPC Internal service-to-service Fast, typed, streaming support Not human-readable,...

2 DaysIntensive

ComprehensiveSA · EA

Architecture Solution Design Integration API Design Data Design View 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.

...flow, then add more. Sequence by dependency — what must exist before what can be built. Sequence by risk — tackle the hardest, riskiest parts early. Sequence by value — deliver business value at every...

1 DayIntensive

PracticalSA · EA · TS

Architecture Solution Design Delivery Agile Runway View Details

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