Platform Engineering Masterclass
Mastering Platform Engineering, from Design to Value
Platform’s promise so much, from increased developer productivity, more reliability and resilience, to better operational efficiency. Unlocking that value in your own unique context and environment is the challenge.
In this workshop you will learn how to design, craft and evolve your own platform towards the measurable benefits your platform initiative promises. Led by real-world platform builder Russ Miles, you’ll learn how to capture the platform you already have, explore the experience you want to evolve for your platform’s users, explore prioritise and plan difficult technical choices and then prove the value as your platform evolves.
Valuable for anyone planning to establish a platform as a product in their organisation — from platform product engineers to principal engineers, architects and technical product owners — this workshop avoids platform engineering myths and instead places practical tools in your hands to help make the key choices and take the crucial decisions on your way to platform engineering success.
Workshop Flow
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Session 1: Before Tech, Explore Context & impact
What problem(s) is the platform solving?
Understanding cognitive load and empathy
Who are your users, stakeholders?
What is your business climate?
What is your current landscape?
Exercises include: Mapping your current business climate and platform landscape
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Session 2: Exploring the Pain
What are your users workflows and what are their pain points?
Collaboratively exploring the pain and opportunities.
Exercises include: Using value stream mapping and developer surveys to explore and surface opportunities.
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Session 3: Designing your platform experience outside-in
Why start outside-in?
DDD and Internal Platform Design
The critical importance of OODA loops
Autonomy, momentum and Scorecards
Exercises include: Use Domain Storytelling and OODA loop design to explore the most impactful features of your potential IDP roadmap.
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Session 4: Mapping Technology Change
Exploring assumptions and decisions
Exploring capability coupling and modularity
Surfacing the gaps
Exercises include: Use Wardley Mapping to explore potential experiments and strategic moves for your platform for the next 5 years.
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Session 5: Building, Communicating and Monitoring your Roadmap
How to design experiments, PoCs and surveys
Measuring quantitative and qualitative impact
Exercise: Building Experiments to explore adoption and sunsetting decisions on your roadmap.
This workshop will give you the tools to plan and engineer a platform for success.
Because your developers (and products, and business!) are worth it (TM).
You’ll leave this workshop with:
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The tools to collaboratively explore users’ needs and painpoints, and powerful means of measuring the impact of your platform
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The tools to focus on what matters and carefully design your platform's Developer experience.
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The tools to explore your current technology landscape and plan controlled, experimental changes for maximum value
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The tools to build a justifiable and empirical roadmap for your Internal Developer Platform.