Target System Envisioning Workshop
App Innovation
Motivation
Successful modernization needs a clear vision of the target state, covering technical aspects, team setup, development models, and operations. The Target System Envisioning Workshop helps stakeholders define this vision for your future application landscape, including system architecture, domain design, integration strategy, and organizational setup, all aligned with business goals and cloud-native best practices.
What we bring
With extensive experience in enterprise transformation and distributed software architecture, PRODYNA offers workshops to shape your future system design. We provide:
- Alignment methods for stakeholders
- Expertise in scalable architectures like microservices and event-driven systems
- Knowledge of cloud-native platforms and DevOps practices
- Patterns for team structures, including team topologies and platform teams
- Best practices to balance innovation with operational stability
What you need
All you need is a to bring together your key decision-makers:
- Business & Product Owners
- Enterprise & Solution Architects
- Development and Operational Leads
We will create the framework and guide you through the envisioning process.
What you get
The workshop produces a comprehensive architectural and organizational vision, including:
- Defined domain and system boundaries.
- A target architecture that corresponds to business domains and scalability requirements.
- Strategic integration and communication patterns.
- Initial team structures and ownership models.
- Actionable next steps to develop the vision into concrete architecture and planning.
This vision serves as a strategic foundation for subsequent modernization steps and platform engineering decisions, providing guidance for aligned, autonomous team delivery. PRODYNA will guide you and your team through envisioning workshop in the following phases:
Context & Objectives
(generally 0.5 days)
In this phase, we gather input on current pain points, strategic goals and architectural challenges. We align on:
- Business drivers, digitalization goals and modernization context
- Pain points in existing architecture and delivery processes
- Desired business outcomes and success criteria
This phase creates a common understanding of the “why” behind the envisioned target system.
Architecture Visioning
(generally 1 -1.5 days)
We collaboratively define the system architecture, including its structure, boundaries, and interactions between services and domains. We explore:
- Domain- and capability-based decomposition (e.g. DDD, bounded contexts)
- Core system components and key responsibilities
- API strategies and integration patterns (REST, events, GraphQL)
- Runtime concepts like microservices, containers or serverless
The result is a draft architectural blueprint aligned to scalability, modularity and maintainability goals.
Team & Organizational Alignment
(generally 0.5 day)
This phase covers how team structures should align with the target system, including collaboration models, ownership boundaries, and cross-functional teams. We address:
- Mapping architecture to autonomous teams (e.g., based on Team Topologies)
- Platform team responsibilities and self-service capabilities
- Collaboration models between Dev, Ops and Security
This leads to a first version of a scalable team model and organizational structure to support the system.
Architectural Assumptions & Technical Direction
(generally 0.5 day)
We briefly outline architectural assumptions and known technical constraints to validate feasibility of the envisioned system. We touch on:
- Expected runtime characteristics (e.g. containers, serverless)
- High-level technology or language direction
- Known limitations or must-have integrations
Platform design, DevOps pipelines, observability tooling and infrastructure automation will be addressed in detail in the Platform Engineering Envisioning workshop.
Quick facts
- Duration: 2 – 3 days
- Outcome: Shared system architecture vision and organizational alignment
- Format: On-site or remote workshop with key stakeholders
Benefits
- Align architecture and business strategy early in the journey
- Establish a common understanding across roles and teams
- Accelerate downstream design and implementation phases
- Reduce miscommunication and architectural drift
- Set the foundation for scalable, maintainable, and future-proof systems
- Accelerate future phases by eliminating ambiguity
- Empower teams to deliver with clarity and autonomy
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