Phase 1 · UnderstandWeek 02
Technology fluency
Understand technology well enough to work with a technical team, without becoming an engineer.
Challenge
Given a fictional architecture, identify the questions a leader should ask before approving it.
Deliverable
Executive Technology Brief
You do not need to know how to configure a server. You need to understand what a technical decision implies for your organisation: applications, databases, APIs, cloud, integrations.
This week introduces the vocabulary that matters, not so you can repeat it, but so you can use it. The goal is to recognise which choices are minor implementation details and which ones commit the business for years.
The point is not to memorise definitions. It is to be able, in a meeting, to ask the question that changes the decision.