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Event Storming Workshop
Enterprise & Solution Architects, Principal Engineers, Product Managers, Domain ExpertsEvent timeline, domain hotspot map, aggregate boundaries, process ownership canvas

Get your developers, domain experts, and business stakeholders in the same room, speaking the same language, discovering the same system — in one day.

...thing to hold onto Most teams think their biggest problem is documentation. Nobody wrote down how the system works. Nobody knows what triggers what. They try to fix it by reading the code, interviewing senior...

1 DayIntensive
Shared ModelOne Language
Developer Experience Is Not a Perk. It Is a Delivery Control System.
Developer Experience Is Not a Perk. It Is a Delivery Control System.

Developer experience is not about making developers happy. It is about controlling the conditions that determine delivery output. Organizations that treat DX as a perk have removed the control system from their delivery engine without knowing it.

...operating conditions determine output. Core outcome: A structured model called Developer Experience Control System (DXCS) that maps the five conditions your delivery engine depends on — and gives you a way to...

Automation & Agentic Systems
Intermediate to Advanced (SA, EA, TS)6-7 hoursAutomation opportunity map + agent architecture blueprint + MCP/A2A integration guide + Agentic Risk & Cost Framework

How AI-powered architectures that plan, act, and use tools autonomously are reshaping integration and workflow — covering agentic patterns, MCP and A2A protocols, orchestration frameworks, human-in-the-loop design, guardrails, observability, and economic risk management.

Quick Navigation Start here — The evolution of automation What agentic systems are Architecture patterns for agents MCP and A2A protocols Human-in-the-loop design Governance...

1.5 DaysIntensive
CurrentSA · EA · TS
AI Use Case Discovery & Prioritization
Beginner to Intermediate4-5 hoursAI use case portfolio + prioritisation matrix + pilot shortlist

The hardest AI question is often not how to build, but what to build first. Learn how to find real use cases, assess fit, sequence experiments, and avoid expensive distractions.

...operationally feasible, or worth the distraction. That is normal. It is also expensive. Strong use case discovery is not about generating more ideas. It is about filtering weak ideas early enough that the...

1 DayWorkshop
Portfolio DesignPractical
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.

Quick Navigation Start here — From systems thinking to portfolio thinking What the portfolio contains Dependency mapping Impact on sequencing Shared...

1 dayIntensive
StrategicPortfolio-level
Domain-Driven Design & Strategic Design Workshop
Enterprise & Solution Architects, Principal Engineers, Tech LeadsDomain map, bounded context canvas, ubiquitous language glossary, context map

Stop designing systems around databases and frameworks. Start designing around your business domains — and watch your architecture conversations change overnight.

...Keep it in mind. Purpose The goal of this workshop is concrete: redesign how your teams think about system boundaries — by drawing them around business domains, not technical layers. I've worked with teams...

1-2 DaysFacilitated
Domain MapStrategic Clarity
AI Agents and Automation
Intermediate to Advanced6-8 hoursAgent use case map + architecture blueprint + governance framework

AI agents — what they are, how they work, the protocols shaping them (MCP, A2A), and the governance you need before you let one act on your behalf. The bridge between AI that talks and AI that does.

...patterns Protocols — MCP and A2A Tool use — giving agents hands Memory — what agents remember Multi-agent systems Governance — controlling agents The agent architecture in one diagram Cheat sheet The shift from...

2 DaysIntensive
Agent DesignWorkshop
Architecture Across the Application Lifecycle: Which Architect Is Needed When?
Architecture Across the Application Lifecycle: Which Architect Is Needed When?

A practical guide explaining which type of architect is required at each stage of the application lifecycle to prevent governance friction and structural instability.

...should lead. As a result: Enterprise Architects review API design. Solution Architects are absent during discovery. Technical Architects are brought in after structural decisions are frozen. Modernization efforts...

Architecture in the Age of AI: What Can Be Automated — and What Cannot
Architecture in the Age of AI: What Can Be Automated — and What Cannot

A governance-driven perspective explaining why software architecture cannot be automated because decision accountability and consequence ownership cannot be delegated to AI.

...this question is emotionally. The right way is structurally. Architecture is not the act of drawing system diagrams. It is the act of assigning decision accountability under uncertainty. That cannot be...

Application & Technology Landscape
All levels — SA, EA, TS4-5 hoursApplication landscape register + technology heat map + dependency matrix

How to build, read, and use the full picture of what an organisation runs — every application, platform, integration, and technology — and how they depend on each other.

...the one thing to hold onto Most organisations don't have an accurate picture of what they're running. Systems were built by different teams, in different years, for different reasons. Nobody mapped the whole...

1 dayIntensive
PracticalLandscape exercise