Most alignment problems in software organizations aren't about tools or talent, they're about direction. Stakeholders pull in different ways, nobody captures where the system should go, and architecture decisions get made in isolation. Even when a team aligns once, the agreement goes stale the moment it lives in a slide deck nobody updates.

This workshop teaches the alignment toolbox I use to fix that: Stakeholder Interview, Delivery Function Map, Architecture Vision, Principles and Guidelines, Technology Adoption Table, Architecture Community, and AI Adoption Strategy. You'll learn to identify and align the right stakeholders, capture the direction (where you need to go and what the system needs today), and connect that direction to your software architecture. The goal isn't a one-off diagram, it's an alignment you can maintain as the organization changes.

AI agents work alongside you here, not just in delivery. You'll see how agents help you build and maintain your alignment strategy, keeping the toolbox alive instead of letting it rot. You leave with your own alignment artifacts populated for your context and a repeatable, agent-assisted way to keep business and technology pointing the same direction.