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Team Topologies & Organisational Design Workshop

CTO, VP Engineering, Engineering Directors, Principal EngineersTeam topology map, interaction model, platform team charter, cognitive load assessment

Your architecture isn't just a technical choice. It's a consequence of how your teams are structured. Fix the structure, and the architecture follows.

...months later the same friction is back in a different shape. The people weren't the problem. Your teams will build a system that looks like your organisation. That's not a metaphor — it's a law. If you...

1 DayIntensive

Team BlueprintClear Boundaries

Team Topologies Organisational Design Conway's Law Delivery Excellence View Details

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 model Inverting...

1 DayIntensive

StrategicEA · TS

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

Conway's Law & Team Boundaries

CTO, VP Engineering, Engineering Directors, Principal Engineers3-4 hoursTwo-layer boundary map — the official org design set against actual incident load, with every structural gap named

Your architecture mirrors your communication structure whether you designed it that way or not — which makes team boundaries an architectural decision.

...They hire, they reorganise, and six months later the same friction is back in a different shape. Your teams will build a system that looks like your organisation. That is not a metaphor — it is a law. If...

1 DayIntensive

BoundariesStructure as design

Conway's Law Team Topologies Organisational Design Team Boundaries 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.

Quick Navigation Start here — the limit nobody put in the plan What a team is actually carrying Four team shapes that respect the limit Three interaction modes — the interface...

1 DayIntensive

CapacityWhat a team can hold

Cognitive Load Team Topologies Platform Engineering Developer Experience View Details

AI-Native Teams Don't Need New Titles. They Need Named Owners.

AI-native team redesigns keep adding new job titles and calling it done. The actual failure mode sits at the decision boundary. Here is what changes when you apply AIDRA to team design instead of headcount.

...utive Summary Who this is for: CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Heads of Platform, Engineering Directors, Team Leads adopting agentic workflows Problem it solves: AI-native team redesigns focus on new job titles...

Leadership Platform Engineering Ai Governance Read Insight

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.

...Leadership = The practice of guiding engineering organizations through AI transformation, distributed team management, and organizational design for high performance. It encompasses: Distributed leadership...

2 DaysWorkshop

FoundationFor all leadership roles

Leadership Organizational Design Decision Rights AI Augmented Teams View Details

Fractional Technology Leadership Engagement

Startups and scale-ups needing senior technology leadershipTechnology strategy, architecture governance, team development, board reporting

Embed experienced technology leadership into your organisation on a part-time basis—owning architecture decisions, team development, and delivery governance.

...technology leadership into your organisation on a part-time basis — owning architecture decisions, team development, delivery governance, and executive reporting without the overhead of a full-time hire. I've...

1-3 Days/WeekEmbedded

Fraction of CostFull-time Hire

Fractional CTO Fractional VP Engineering Fractional Chief Architect Part Time Leadership View Details