Faster, Better, More! How to start and scale a Digital Platform for your organisation's teams

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Defines a digital platform as a product of people, processes and tooling that accelerates other service teams and gives five glass‑tested criteria to decide whether to start one: multi‑year funding, homogeneous workload, a service team as first user, empowered platform team, and support five or more service teams. Recommends discovery + inception, lightweight managed services, pairing with the first user, and tracking deployment lead time and frequency, MTTR and availability while warning against per‑team platform forks and separate support squads.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:354 fundamental topologies Stream-aligned team Enabling team Complicated Subsystem team Platform team
3. 6:26Will the Digital Platform have multi- year funding?
4. 7:00Will the Digital Platform serve a homogeneous workload?
5. 7:29Will the Digital Platform have a service team to be the first user ?
6. 7:41Will the Digital Platform team be empowered to make choices?
7. 13:14Choose user journeys Strategy to handle other journeys Tooling choices
8. 13:29Maximise using lightweight managed services build your user journeys
9. 15:53Failure to collaborate with users
10. 16:34Onboard a service team as soon as possible
11. 18:16Failure to enable Continuous Delivery & Operability
12. 18:38Technology isn't supporting the processes
13. 19:08Process isn't supporting the technology
14. 21:20Failure to help users adapt to change
15. 22:50Pitfalls when scaling a Digital Platform
16. 24:10each service team
17. 26:11Failure to sustainably scale team structures
18. 28:06Split Platform Teams based on user features and capabilities
19. 29:56Failure to do one thing well
20. 30:41Create a Data Platform team
21. 31:20What can you do when you go back to your organisation?

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