ADAConf 2025 - Workshops

Decisions happen every day and they both contribute to and constrain our organisation's present and future. Is it possible to make more efficient decisions by bringing some of the decisions closer to where most of the knowledge is? How can we better build feedback loops in the process of decision making?

A system's architecture is the collection of previous decisions. Your technical strategy needs to consider this as an enabler and a constraint. It also needs to align with the organisation's overall strategy.

Engaging across organisational levels is a learnable skill, and practice is the most efficient way to develop it. However, you can only practice effectively if you have first built a rich mental model and thoroughly understood the context. Working alongside a mentor architect is the ideal way to develop this skill, but a more accessible alternative is attending a highly interactive workshop.

In this two-day workshop we will review practices that enable better designs. Because you will be making decisions when the context and the answer is not clear. Because it's about learning to identify risks, trade-offs, and design systems that can evolve.

To have nuanced conversations at all levels of the organisation, you will need to be equipped with a rich model and understand the context that you need to use to communicate effectively.

Workshop participants will be able to:

• Understand an organisation's decision-making process and influence it
• Co-create principles and processes that would help guide architectural decisions
• Model solo and collaboratively
• Clearly articulate the value of architecture in times of change and uncertainty
• Tackle the complexity of large-scale systems by co-creating models and think in a systemic way
• Communicate technical topics and their merit across the organisation