platform means you don’t need to start from scratch but can build on top of what others have created.” Gregor Hophe, author of Platform Strategy – Innovation through Harmonization
Increasing Customer Expectations 4. Accelerated Digital Transformation 5. The War for Talent Will Intensify 6. Data and Device Security 7. Sustainability
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Increasing Customer Expectations 4. Accelerated Digital Transformation 5. The War for Talent Will Intensify 6. Data and Device Security 7. Sustainability INCREASE EFFICIENCY DECREASE RISK DECREASE RISK INCREASE EFFICIENCY 🔥 GO FASTER 🔥 🔥 GO FASTER 🔥 🔥 GO FASTER 🔥
Academy 2021 Virtual PlatformCon 2022 event with more than 70 talks, key theme of Platform as a Product highlighted 2022 2024 First Platform Engineering day at KubeCon - focus on Platform as a Product and user centricity
team ever when their investment gets canned and they are back to being a ticket shop with no automation and are only spoken to when things are on fire :(
customers access to a free virtual card Provide access to and support payments via virtual card Enable Cards Team to self-serve infra & pipelines related to virtual card Business Objective Business Bet Application Team Platform Team
you go faster, decrease risk and increase efficiency ◦ Everyone wants those things • But Platforms are hard because: ◦ They are technically complex ◦ They require organisational change • Platform as a Product wins because: ◦ It learns from what we learnt building consumer products ◦ It actually has a long history of success • And to do it right you need to: ◦ Follow Cat’s Platform-as-a-Product lessons… TLDR;
everyone all at once. 2. Platforms don’t have a very big captive audience. 3. You need to learn UX. Platform XDs are even rarer than you are. 4. FEASIBILITY IS NOT YOUR JOB ANYMORE! 5. Teams not directly adding customer value are the first to be cut. Cat’s Platform-as-a-Product Lessons