From 165 Days To 30 Minutes: Breaking Enterprise Silos With…
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Claims a reduction from 165 days to 30 minutes by replacing a 15-department, 40+ form provisioning maze with a Backstage developer portal that automates approvals and templates for AWS Lambda/DynamoDB; architecture uses Backstage + Keycloak + Argo CD + Kubernetes + Terraform and templates that shrink wait times from days to minutes. Rollout hits 4,000 engineers / 500 systems via mixed infra-app teams, small “3 mm” increments (wiki-links → one-click templates), mandated onboarding for new projects plus voluntary adoption, and measured wins like search time falling from months to five minutes.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:50165-day provisioning nightmare
- 5:50Breaking enterprise silos
- 9:09Psychological safety and ownership
- 12:35Autonomy through adoption
- 15:53Technical architecture
- 17:43Incremental adoption approach
- 20:11Mandate as tutorial
- 22:20Three key lessons
- 23:25Closing and feedback
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