Scalability & Growth Workshops

Overview

During our workshops, your team will gain exposure to AKF tools, models, and approaches that we developed through decades of experience as CTOs and technology executives at both large organizations and start-ups. We offer Agile training, scalability design, organizing for innovation, and training on other product-growth topics. These events are offered periodically to the public, but can also be tailored to your company's needs and delivered on your campus, just for your employees.

How Is the Workshop Structured?

The workshop is delivered across a number of collaborative sessions over a 2-day event. While a member of the AKF team leads the discussion in each session, much of the interaction comes from the participants themselves. We suggest limiting session size to a maximum of 25 attendees so each attendee can be an active part of the conversation, share experiences, and ask questions of other executives who have been in your shoes. You'll leave the workshop with principles, tools, and examples you can continuously apply to your platform and organization.

Who Should Attend?

Our event is designed for current CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Chief Architects, and other technologists who want to improve their management, leadership, agile process, or technology skills. Although nearly any technical organization would benefit, our sessions provide the most value to companies that use technology to deliver their core product or service (e.g. SaaS, eCommerce).

What Topics Are Covered?

• The CTO Role — the diversity of expectations and responsibilities across the 400+ companies we've worked with
• The Right People & Roles — ensuring the right talent is placed in positions for success
• Management & Leadership — the skills of a transformational leader and highly effective manager
• Conflict & Innovation — good and bad conflict in organizations, and how to increase innovation
• Multidisciplinary Agile Teams — building innovative teams with diverse experience and skills
• Team Goals & KPIs — setting goals, metrics, and KPIs for Agile teams
• The Experiential Chasm — the widening gap between business and technology leaders, and how to close it
• Service Delivery Mindset — structuring technology organizations around a service-oriented mindset
• AKF Risk Model — managing risk across architecture, people, and process
• Highly Scalable Architectures — creating highly scalable and available architectures
• AKF Scale Cube — our approach to designing highly scalable architectures
• Creating Fault Isolation — the importance of isolation for availability and time to market
• Architecture Principles — the top architecture principles and how to apply them
• Processes for a Learning Organization — the most effective processes for building a learning organization

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