Building Successful Platform Teams

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Explains what a platform team (PST) is and how to build effective platform engineering teams to support many product teams. Covers common pitfalls, key platform engineering principles, strategic objectives platform teams can use to guide decisions, and practical tactics to shield internal users from service changes.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:12DevOps transformation challenges
3. 2:37DevOps culture and teams
4. 4:00Successful platform teams
5. 6:33Conway's law and topologies
6. 9:01Mixed deployment model
7. 11:50Business value metrics
8. 14:00Tools and tech maturity
9. 17:11DevOps scaling
10. 18:59Platform security
11. 20:00SRE engineering
12. 24:39Operational metrics and feedback
13. 27:09SRE roadmap
14. 29:13DORA self-assessment
15. 30:17Conclusion and next steps

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