Driving Platform Adoption: The Right Way

Discover the key strategies for successful platform adoption in this 16-minute conference talk from PlatformCon 2024. Learn why developer adoption is crucial for platform success and why relying on a "build it, and they will come" approach often leads to failure. Explore effective methods for driving adoption, starting with a small group of advocates and scaling to large engineering organizations. Gain insights from both successful and unsuccessful platform engineering initiatives, and understand why a fancy UI or interesting branding alone is not enough. Uncover practical techniques to ensure that the platform you've invested time and resources in becomes widely adopted and utilized by your development team.

Driving platform adoption: the right way - Kaspar von Grünberg | PlatformCon 2024