ADAConf 2025 - Workshops

Tired of feeling like, or being, a bottleneck?

You can’t really offer your full value because your attention is pulled in infinite directions at once.

You know you will not be able to give your full attention to some decisions and must hope the consequences aren’t severe.

Architects live with the pressure to ensure effective delivery while managing technical risks, such as compliance and availability, that could harm the business.

At the same time, decisions happen every day across the organisation and they contribute and constrain your organisation's present and future.

The struggle is about making effective decisions by bringing some of the decisions closer to where most of the knowledge is without increasing risk. How would roles change as this is happening?

Some architects find this change difficult - if they have no authority then is it all influence? How can they do their best work?

In this workshop we go over ways to invert the control, to learn and practise how to enable teams to make decisions with knowledge and confidence, so your role is about coaching, mentoring and teaching how to make good decisions, building mutual trust along the way.

Takeaways:

• Unlock the power of transparency by documenting the process of making decisions
• Practice enabling and coaching approaches (guidelines rather than laws)
• Co-creating models
• Experiment first approaches 
• Learn to communicate technical topics and their merit across the organisation by delegating your authority and leading by example