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 to decide what to build, what to buy, what to access through partners, and what to participate in through ecosystems — covering differentiation vs commodity analysis, vendor evaluation, total cost of ownership, interoperability velocity, exit strategy, and lock-in risk.
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.