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Engineering Strategy for Senior Leaders

A structured working session to clarify direction, align stakeholders, and connect engineering priorities to commercial outcomes.

Format
Half-day workshop
Duration
3.5 hours
Audience
CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and senior engineering leaders
About this workshop

What it covers

Most engineering teams are not short of work. They are short of clarity about which work matters most. This workshop gives senior engineering leaders a practical framework for setting direction, making trade-offs explicit, and communicating strategy in terms the business understands. It is designed for leaders who are already in role and need to sharpen their thinking — not for those learning the basics.

Outcomes

What you will leave with

  • A clear view of where engineering should be focused over the next 12 months
  • A repeatable framework for making build vs buy vs partner decisions
  • A shared language for engineering priorities that works in board and exec conversations
  • Identified gaps between current engineering capability and business requirements
Agenda

How the session runs

  1. 01

    Where are we now

    A structured audit of the current engineering landscape — capability, capacity, technical debt, and strategic alignment.

  2. 02

    What the business needs from engineering

    Translating commercial priorities into engineering requirements. Making trade-offs explicit rather than implicit.

  3. 03

    Setting direction

    Building a 12-month engineering strategy that is specific enough to act on and communicable to non-technical stakeholders.

  4. 04

    Making it stick

    Planning the next 30 days. How to communicate the strategy, get buy-in, and set up the operating rhythm to execute against it.

Resources

Workshop materials

  • PDF

    Workshop preparation guide

    A short preparation guide covering the questions and materials to review before the session.

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Interested in running this workshop?

Workshops run in-person or virtually, for leadership teams or individual leaders. Get in touch to discuss dates, format, and whether it is the right fit.

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