How to decide which technology initiatives get funded, in what order, and why — connecting architecture to financial decisions and business outcomes. Covers business cases, value and risk quantification, portfolio prioritisation, sequencing, and FinOps as an investment input.
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.
How to build multi-year transformation roadmaps that sequence architectural change realistically — accounting for dependencies, capacity, risk, and the fact that the organisation must continue operating while it transforms. Covers transition states, sequencing principles, dependency mapping, capacity planning, and communicating roadmaps to stakeholders.