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AI Risk Patterns & Failure Modes
Beginner to Intermediate4-5 hoursAI risk pattern map + mitigation checklist + failure review template

Most AI failures are predictable. Learn the recurring patterns behind hallucinations, automation bias, data leakage, brittle workflows, hidden costs, and false confidence before they become expensive.

...risk and workflow brittleness Failure chains and compounding error Risk signals to watch early How to design mitigation into the work Learning from incidents without panic The failure map in one diagram Cheat...

1 DayPractical
Risk AwarenessOperational
AI Policy, Security & Organisational Controls
Beginner to Intermediate4-5 hoursAI policy checklist + security controls map + incident response starter template

Building and enforcing AI policy — the practical mechanisms that turn ethical principles into enforceable organisational rules. Data security, access controls, audit trails, and incident response.

...name the approved AI tools without looking it up? If no: policy not communicated Has anyone on your team pasted sensitive data into a free AI tool? If yes: no access controls Can anyone list the active...

1 DayIntensive
Beginner FriendlyNo legal background required
Capability Mapping & Business Outcomes
All levels — SA, EA, TS4-5 hoursBusiness capability map template + capability-to-outcome linkage model

How to build business capability maps, connect them to technology, and link capabilities to strategic outcomes — the bridge between business strategy and technical architecture.

...maps that were just org charts in disguise — "Salesforce management" listed as a capability, "the KYC team" listed as a capability. Those aren't capabilities. They're temporary structures. A business capability...

1.5 daysIntensive
PracticalMap-building exercise
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.

...your role, context, and constraints in every prompt is inefficient. It's also inconsistent — different team members will write those parts differently, producing different outputs from the same underlying...

2 DaysIntensive
19 TechniquesComplete Coverage
What is Generative AI?
Beginner3-4 hoursClear mental model of Generative AI + reference materials

Generative AI — what it actually is, how it works, what it's good at, and where it goes wrong. No hype. No math. Just clarity.

...through fine-tuning and human feedback. Try it yourself — Your own three stages Think about how your team or organisation would "train" an AI to work the way you work. What would each stage look like?...

Half DayIntensive
Beginner FriendlyNo math required
Paying Down Debt Through Feature Work
CTOs, Engineering Leaders, Enterprise Architects, Product Leaders3-4 hoursA feature-driven debt reduction policy — the rule, the visibility mechanism, and the two questions review asks about every feature

Debt accumulates faster than refactoring projects can remove it. Fund architecture improvement through the product roadmap instead of competing with it.

...sheet Before we start — the one thing to hold onto Every engineering organisation recognises technical debt. Teams say: we should refactor this, this module needs redesign, we need to clean up the architecture. Then...

1 DayIntensive
ContinuousNot a project
Future of AI
Intermediate to Senior Leaders3-4 hoursAI horizon scan + strategic implications analysis + preparation roadmap

What's coming in AI — multimodal models, on-device AI, open-source momentum, protocols, regulation, and the shift to AI-native organisations. See around the corner without falling for hype.

...analysis, visual QA Image generation Production (DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion) Creative, design, prototyping Audio understanding Production (Whisper, Gemini) Transcription, voice commands...

Half DayIntensive
Horizon ScanDeliverable
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.

...don't know about it. I've seen architects produce 60-page papers that nobody outside the architecture team read, and 45-slide executive decks full of diagrams that overran board meetings with no decisions...

1 DayIntensive
CriticalSA · EA · TS
Architecture Decisions & ADRs
All levels — SA, EA, TS3-4 hoursADR template + decision log + rationale guide

How to capture, document, and govern architecture decisions using ADRs — the lightweight mechanism that turns tribal knowledge into shared understanding.

...knowledge — debated again six months later by people who weren't in the room. I've sat in meetings where teams spent an hour re-debating a decision that was already made, documented nowhere, and the person...

Half-dayIntensive
PracticalReady to use
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.

...sheet Before we start — the one thing to hold onto Not every good idea can be funded. Budgets are finite, teams are finite, and attention is finite. I've seen investment decisions made on political power, whoever...

1 DayIntensive
StrategicEA · TS
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