Service — Training & up-skilling
Build the architecture capability into your team — not just into the engagement.
Mentoring, paired delivery and structured workshops in Microsoft solution architecture and agentic AI — including PL-600 and AB-100 preparation. The aim is consultants and teams who understand the reasoning, not just the clicks.
Why this, and not a course
Capability is built on real work
A two-day course can teach the features. It rarely changes how a consultant makes an architecture decision under pressure. That comes from working a real problem alongside someone who has made the decision before — and being asked to explain the reasoning, not just the result.
I have taught this material for years — as a lecturer, a conference speaker, a bootcamp instructor, and the author of a reference handbook used for PL-600 preparation. The up-skilling I offer is built on that, but anchored in your team’s actual programme rather than a generic case study.
Formats
Four ways the up-skilling runs
Mentoring
One-to-one work with individual architects and senior consultants — reviewing their decisions, stretching their reasoning, and helping them grow into the role.
Paired delivery
Working alongside your team on a live programme — making the architecture decisions together, so the capability is transferred in context.
Workshops & certification prep
Structured sessions for cohorts — including PL-600 and AB-100 preparation — drawn from the handbook and tuned to your team’s context.
Architecture reviews
A senior second opinion on a design in progress — surfacing the risks early, and giving the team a worked example of how the review itself is done.
Who it is for
Consultancies and internal teams
Microsoft consultancies growing their architecture bench, and internal teams who want to depend less on outside help over time. Cohorts are kept small enough that everyone is doing the work, not watching it.
It also pairs naturally with a delivery engagement — the up-skilling and the programme reinforce each other, and the team is measurably stronger by the end of it.
Want to strengthen a team?
Tell me where your team is and where you need them to be. We can shape the right mix of mentoring, paired delivery and workshops from there.