Whether you are just beginning to identify bottlenecks in your system or ready for a comprehensive modernization, I offer flexible engagement models that meet you where you are. From focused two-week assessments to long-term partnerships, each option is designed to build sustainable flow while developing your team’s internal capability.
Discovery & Assessment
“Everything feels slow, but we don’t even know where to start or what’s actually blocking us.“
Architecture for Flow Assessment (2 weeks)
This short, focused engagement helps you to make your current system visible and identify the most critical constraints limiting you.
Typical focus:
- Understanding your current socio-technical system
- Making dependencies, bottlenecks, and sources of friction explicit
- Creating a shared view across technical and non-technical stakeholders
What you will get:
- Completed As-Is Architecture for Flow Canvas
- Identified bottlenecks
- A prioritized set of improvement opportunities
Ideal for:
- Organizations struggling with unclear bottlenecks
- Teams needing objective assessment of their current state
- Leadership looking for data-driven starting points
Format: 2-week engagement with collaborative sessions
Transformation & Partnership
“Our past improvements were just short-term band-aids which did not stick. We need someone to actually walk this journey with us.“
From Friction to Sustainable Flow
This engagement supports you over time, combining strategic guidance with hands-on work to evolve architecture, teams, and ways of working incrementally.
Choose the level of partnership that matches your modernization goals:
Typical focus:
- Canvas journey from As-Is to To-Be
- Collaborative sessions with teams involved in the optimization process
- Strategic design of your future state
What you will get:
- Complete Canvas transformation blueprint (1st version)
- Initial roadmap for implementation
- Team alignment on future direction
Ideal for: Organizations ready to commit to transformation with an initial blueprint
Format: 4-6-week engagement with collaborative sessions
Typical focus:
- Monthly Canvas working sessions (2 days each)
- Between sessions: teams implement changes and gather data
- Iterative refinement of To-Be state
- Continuous adaptation based on learnings
What you will get:
- Living Canvas with implementation roadmap
- Monthly review and adjustment cycles
- Embedded practices of continuous improvement
Ideal for: Organizations wanting guiding implementation with regular check-ins
Format: 3-month engagement with monthly collaborative sessions (2 days each) and regular check-ins
Typical focus:
- Full Canvas-guided transformation
- Monthly Canvas reviews and updates
- Quarterly strategic assessments
- Embedded advisory support throughout
- Deep organizational capability building
What you will get:
- Embedded Canvas practice in your organization
- Sustained transformation with lasting results
- Internal capability to continue evolution independently
Ideal for: Organizations committed to comprehensive, lasting change
Format: 6-12-month engagement with monthly collaborative sessions (2 days each) and regular check-ins, including quarterly strategic assessments
Leadership & Strategic Alignment
“While fighting fires, I lost strategic focus on architecture and flow. I need a sparring partner to help me design a system that is amenable to change.“
Flow Leadership Coaching
These coaching and alignment formats support leaders in navigating complexity and making informed, systemic decisions.
For: CTOs, Engineering Directors, Tech Leads, Principal Engineers
Format:
- Bi-weekly 90 minute 1:1 sessions
- Async support between sessions
- Access to Canvas tools and templates
Focus areas:
- Identifying blockers to flow and improvement opportunities
- Building architecture and team strategy using Canvas
Options:
- 3 months (6 sessions)
- 6 months (12 sessions)
- 12 months (24 sessions)
What you will get:
- Personal Canvas for your organization
- Monthly action plans and progress tracking
- Architecture & team strategy document
- Personalized roadmap aligned to your context
Ideal for: Engineering leaders needing strategic guidance and accountability
For: Entire engineering leadership team (CTO + direct reports)
Format:
- Monthly group coaching sessions (2 hours)
- Individual 1:1 with CTO (monthly)
- Minimum 6-month commitment
Focus areas:
- Creating unified flow strategy across the organization
- Team alignment using Canvas
- Collective problem-solving on systemic challenges
- Building shared mental models
What you will get:
- Unified leadership team Canvas
- Aligned leadership team vision
- Stronger collaboration and decision-making
- Shared language and frameworks
Ideal for: Leadership teams wanting to align their approach to organizational transformation
Enablement & Training
“We need a shared language to align our tech strategy and team organization with where the business is going.“
Build internal capability through hands-on learning:
Duration: 2-day intensive or 4 half-days remote
You will learn:
- How to combine Wardley Mapping, Domain-Driven Design, and Team Topologies as a holistic approach
- Design adaptive, socio-technical systems optimized for flow of change
- Apply the Architecture for Flow Canvas to your organization
- Connect business strategy with software design and architecture, and team organization
Ideal for: Leadership teams, architects, and technical leads who need to align strategy with execution
Duration: 1-day intensive or 2 half-days remote
You will learn:
- How to discover domain boundaries (bounded contexts)
- Map integration patterns (context maps)
- Implement tactical DDD patterns
- Reduce coupling and manage complexity for long-term changeability
Ideal for: Development teams, architects, and product managers working on complex systems
Duration: 1-day intensive or 2 half-days remote
You will learn:
- How to visualize business landscapes
- Apply Wardley’s strategy cycle to anticipate change
- Make strategic build-or-buy decisions
- Identify investment areas and evolution patterns
Ideal for: Leadership teams, product managers, and strategists
Specialized Engagements
“We need hands-on help that builds internal capability, not just external advice.“
These engagements address focused, deep work in a specific area of your system:
Commitment: 2-4 days per month, minimum 6 months
Focus areas:
- Hands-on architecture work alongside your teams
- Continuous Canvas evolution
- Coaching and capability building
- Strategic and tactical guidance
What you will get:
- Sustained transformation with consistent support
- Internal capability development
- Real-time problem-solving on architectural and team organization challenges
- Embedded best practices in your workflow
Ideal for: Organizations needing ongoing expert support while building internal capability
Duration: 3-5 days
Focus areas:
- EventStorming sessions with domain experts and development teams
- Bounded context identification
- Context mapping sessions
- Collaborative domain modeling
What you will get:
- Bounded context candidates
- Context maps showing integration patterns
- First set of domain models
- Shared understanding across technical and business teams
Ideal for: Teams starting complex system redesign or tackling legacy modernization
Every organization is unique. If none of the above packages fit your specific situation, let’s design a custom engagement together.
Free 30-minute exploration call to discuss your needs
Ideal for: Organizations with unique challenges requiring customized approaches
Speaking & Book Club
“We need inspiration for new perspectives.“
I offer talks, keynotes, and facilitated book clubs and roundtables to spark conversations and create a shared foundation for optimizing flow of change.
Keynote (45-60 minutes)
High-impact inspiration for conferences, all-hands meetings, or strategic offsites. Energize your organization around the possibilities of flow-optimized systems.
Technical talk (45 minutes)
Deep dive into Architecture for Flow methodology. Perfect for conferences, engineering all-hands, architecture guilds, or technical leadership gatherings.
Executive briefing (30 minutes)
C-suite focused presentation on the strategic value of optimizing socio-technical systems for flow. Connect technical transformation to business outcomes.
Duration: 6-week journey through “Architecture for Flow”
Format options:
- Self-managed with reading guide
- Guided with 90-minute virtual sessions at 3 of the weekly sessions
- Guided with 90-minute virtual sessions at all 6 weekly sessions
What you will get:
- Shared understanding of Architecture for Flow concepts
- Practical discussions applying concepts to your context
- Team alignment on approach and language
What is it: An intimate, facilitated conversation for senior leaders to discuss real challenges around optimizing socio-technical systems for flow. Participants can speak openly about their experiences, learn from peers, and gain fresh perspectives on persistent problems.
Duration: 3-hour event
Format:
- Private dining room setting
- Open roundtable conversation under Chatham House Rules
- Informal but focused atmosphere
- Limited to 20-25 participants for quality dialogue
Your role: You organize the event, invite participants, and arrange the venue and catering. I facilitate the conversation, ensure productive dialogue, and bring expertise on Architecture for Flow topics while maintaining Chatham House Rules.
Ideal for:
- Consultancies hosting a client network roundtable
- Organizations bringing together leadership from multiple teams or business units
- Companies providing professional development for senior leaders
- Professional communities and industry groups
About the Architecture for Flow Canvas
The Architecture for Flow Canvas is a structured yet flexible approach to integrating Wardley Mapping, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and Team Topologies into a cohesive view. It helps organizations visualize their current state, design their future state, and create actionable roadmaps for transformation. Learn more about the canvas.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you work remotely or on-site?
I work both remotely or on-site depending on your needs and the engagement type. Many assessments and coaching sessions work well remotely, while intensive workshops and kick-offs often benefit from in-person collaboration.
What industries do you serve?
I work across industries including automotive, manufacturing, pharma, e-commerce, financial services, logistics, and more. The Architecture for Flow approach applies to any organization with complex socio-technical systems.
How do we get started?
The best first step is a 30-minute discovery call where we can discuss your specific situation and determine which engagement model makes the most sense for you.
Can we combine different engagement models?
Absolutely! Many organizations benefit from combining approaches. For example, starting with an assessment, following with training, and then moving into a transformation partnership.
What makes your approach different?
I focus on building your internal capability, not creating dependency. The Architecture for Flow approach provides a holistic toolset that connects business strategy, software design and architecture, and team organization, addressing multiple perspectives together rather than in isolation.