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Platform Engineering & DevEx Strategy Workshop

VP Engineering, Platform Leads, Engineering ManagersPlatform engineering strategy, golden path specifications, DevEx baseline

Design internal developer platforms and golden paths that accelerate delivery, improve developer experience, and create standardised pathways.

Before we start — the one thing to hold onto Most teams think they need a platform. They don't. They need fewer obstacles. I've sat in rooms with platform teams who built beautiful...

2 DaysStrategic Design

DevEx ImprovementTeam Velocity

Platform Engineering Developer Experience Internal Developer Platform Golden Paths View Details

Platform as a Product

CTOs, Heads of Platform Engineering, VP Engineering, Enterprise Architects, Platform Product Managers3-4 hoursA three-gate platform governance plan — validated backlog, a written scope boundary, and adoption targets per capability

An internal platform with no product owner builds what nobody asked for and skips what everybody needs — adoption, not completeness, is the only measure that counts.

...adoption The gate before build — demand The gate during build — scope The gate after release — adoption Shadow platforms are a receipt, not a crime Running it — 45 to 90 days Putting it all together Cheat sheet Before...

1 DayIntensive

AdoptionNot feature count

Platform Engineering Internal Developer Platform Product Governance Golden Paths 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.

Quick Navigation Start here — What a platform is Why platform thinking matters now The platform team model Designing for adoption What makes...

1 DayIntensive

CurrentSA · EA · TS

Architecture Platform Developer Experience Internal Platforms Self Service View Details

Your Platform Team Is Building a Product Nobody Asked For.

Most platform teams build internal products their engineering teams never chose. Platform adoption is not a marketing problem. It is a product governance problem. Here is the model that fixes it.

Executive Summary Who this is for: CTOs, Heads of Platform Engineering, Enterprise Architects, VPs of Engineering, Platform Product Managers Problem it...

Leadership Platform Engineering Governance Read Insight

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.

Quick Navigation Start here — Conway's Law Centralised vs federated Platform teams Product operating models Team topologies Governance in federated models Choosing an operating...

1 DayIntensive

StrategicEA · TS

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

...carrying Four team shapes that respect the limit Three interaction modes — the interface is the design The platform as the load-absorbing interface Golden paths, dirt roads, and the museum problem Measuring whether...

1 DayIntensive

CapacityWhat a team can hold

Cognitive Load Team Topologies Platform Engineering Developer Experience View Details

The Architecture Evolution Model: How Architecture Changes from Startup to Enterprise

A practical framework explaining how software architecture evolves from startup experimentation to enterprise-scale governance, and what architectural practices are needed at each stage.

...Model Architecture maturity typically progresses through four stages: Startup Architecture Growth Architecture Platform Architecture Enterprise Architecture Each stage introduces: greater scale greater system...

Architecture Operating Model Governance Read Insight

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.

...research labs Vendor Vendor roadmaps, release notes, beta programmes Community Open source projects, developer forums, meetups Internal Team experiments, proof of concepts, hackathons Not all signals...

Half-dayIntensive

PracticalSA · EA · TS

Architecture Technology Radar Horizon Scanning Innovation Strategy View Details

Standards & Reference Architectures

Intermediate (SA, EA)4-5 hoursReference architecture library starter + standards register + architecture principles catalogue

How to create, govern, and operationalise architecture standards and reference architectures — the agreed patterns and structures that create consistency, reduce duplication, and accelerate delivery at scale.

...Reusable structural templates for common problems Teams facing common problems — "build an integration platform," "set up a cloud landing zone," "design a data platform" — shouldn't start from scratch every...

1 dayIntensive

PracticalStandards exercise

Architecture Enterprise Context Standards Reference Architecture Governance Consistency View 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.

...clear decision rights, roles, and responsibilities (who owns what) Enablement — provide teams with platforms, tools, and guardrails to ship confidently Distribution — leadership is a property of the organization,...

2 DaysWorkshop

FoundationFor all leadership roles

Leadership Organizational Design Decision Rights AI Augmented Teams View Details