Building High-Performing Platform Teams: A Practical Guide with Real-World Examples

Discover key principles and practices for building high-performing platform teams in this 57-minute talk featuring real-world examples from a public sector organization. Learn about the importance of ownership, creating a team culture of autonomy, mastery, and purpose, and implementing practical strategies to empower teams. Explore tools and ideas for understanding your platform's ecosystem, including collaboration with developers. Gain insights on creating feedback loops and measuring platform team success. The talk covers topics such as establishing a clear vision, prioritization, inviting feedback, metrics, team building, continuous learning, experimentation, and inner sourcing. Delve into questions about collaboration, overcoming struggles, documentation, managing technical dependencies, and selecting appropriate tools for your platform team's success.

Intro
What are platforms
What are platform teams
What are highperforming product teams
What is a highperforming platform team
The right product approach
The Clear Vision
The Ecosystem
Prioritize
Invite feedback
Metrics
Team building
Continuous learning
Open for experimentation
Inner sourcing
Wrap up
QA
Questions
Collaboration
Struggles
Learning
Documentation
Managing TechDeps
Selecting the right tooling