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See clearly. Lighten. Deliver.

When a strategic initiative stalls, the brake is rarely the tooling. I pin down the real problem and turn it into something that ships, with your teams.

When a division is slow to deliver, the reflex is to add: a big off-the-shelf package, a large programme, more governance. The real brake is elsewhere. Technology designed as an engineering object, cut off from the actual value stream, where most of the time is spent waiting. The result: it costs, it blocks, it does not ship. And more governance only adds more waiting.

My work comes in three steps. See clearly: a diagnostic that reveals the real problem and makes it understandable, simply, visually, in business terms. Lighten: challenge the heavy assumption and open a path that is often counter-intuitive. Deliver: execute within the complexity, all the way to production, in a way your teams can maintain.

This is sociotechnical work: technology cannot be fixed without the people who keep it running. I work with your teams, not in their place, and I pass on what I do so they can carry on without me.

Strategic technology consulting

Two offers, one approach

Start by seeing clearly; stay if you want to deliver.

30 years of software architecture in service of one outcome: what is blocking gets unblocked, and it ships. No commission, no army to bill, no hourly rate.

Flow Diagnostic

Clarity in two weeks

Where your value stream is blocked, made visible and quantified, and the decisions to take. Fixed price, defined deliverable, from CHF 12'000.-.

Associate Architect

Delivering at your side, two days a week

A senior architect embedded in your division, with a written scope: architecture decisions, reviews, delivery with the teams, mentoring. Monthly flat fee from CHF 13'000.-, one engagement at a time.

How it works

Three steps, always in this order.

1

See clearly

I start by understanding your situation and surfacing the root causes, not the symptoms.

2

Lighten

I propose a prioritised, right-sized path, fitted to your context, not a generic plan.

3

Deliver

I work alongside your teams all the way to production, with follow-up that adapts.

An initiative that has stalled?

Let's take 30 minutes to look at it together.

You leave with a clear reading of what is blocking, even if we go no further.

Sociotechnical consulting | Bakir In & Out