Free Lesson
Claude Certified Architect: Own the Stakeholder
Part of Claude Certified Architect: The Last Mile
30 min
Oct 7, 2026 12:00 PM
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What you'll learn
Run discovery before you design
Structured requirements: who decides, what done means, and which SLA they will actually hold you to.
Defend trade-offs without theatre
Explain model, cost, and failure-mode choices to the person who still owns the outcome next year.
Stay in the lifecycle after the demo
Discovery, design, handoff, monitoring, iteration. The architect's job is the loop, not the screenshot.
Why this topic matters
BCG's 10-20-70: only 10% of AI value is the algorithm. Seventy percent is people, process, and change. That is the confession inside the lab-consulting alliances. The scarce professional is not a better prompter. It is the person who can run discovery, defend trade-offs, and stay with the stakeholder who still owns the outcome next year. In 30 minutes you will practice that loop. Lesson 4 of 5.
