Stakeholder Engagement, Lifecycle & GTM

You have built systems that work. This module is about the people who decide whether those systems ship and adopt. A finished design still depends on stakeholders: the discovery that sets the real requirements, the meeting that approves or rejects a trade-off, and the handoff that determines whether it lasts. This module covers that work, from structured discovery through trade-off presentations, lifecycle feedback loops, and cross-platform delivery.

Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• Run a structured discovery conversation with a non-technical stakeholder and translate what you learn into architectural requirements and documented assumptions, so the design traces back to the business case rather than to your own technical preference
• Present an architectural trade-off in terms a business stakeholder can act on by pairing each choice with a cost, a risk, and what a reversal would take, so executive and procurement reviews reach a decision instead of stalling
• Build and operate a stakeholder feedback loop across the deployment lifecycle, naming what triggers review, what an SLA breach requires, and when to iterate versus re-architect, with governance checkpoints built into the same loop
• Lead the Architect's role in a partner go-to-market motion through discovery, a scenario-based demo, technical objection handling, and joint scoping with the Anthropic Applied AI team, so an enterprise opportunity does not stall on questions only you can answer
• Select the deployment entry point and cross-platform strategy for a multi-platform production system, comparing the direct API, Bedrock, Vertex, and third-party routes on latency, compliance, and cost, then produce an outcome document that makes the value legible to a non-technical sponsor and reusable as partner IP