In hindsight, what would you do differently when setting up your platform engineering function?
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Senior Director Engineering in Travel and Hospitalitya year ago
Create them as federated teams... they govern edge cases, but promote distributed ownership CEO in Services (non-Government)a year ago
Many things, specifically if you are coming new into the platform engineering space. My top recommendations: 1) align the work to customer outcomes, not technology output, along with the right metrics of success for the team. 2) organize the team to minimize friction to achieve those customer outcomes, team topology is fundamental in delivering the expected results 3) developer experience at the core, you want the engineering team to avoid wasting time and energy and reuse components and accelerate time to market, plus good engineers stay if their work is pleasant. This is not about a portal only but also the CI/CD practices to succeed im delivering great products 4) a cohesive approach and proximity to PO/PM is key to deliver customer outcomes versus engineering output only. As always, context is everything so surely will miss many things when double clicking into the details of each case.