I think there's a lot of potential beyond what your current focus is on platform engineering and more technical platforms. We start to see some examples where I like to think about what is platform in 10 years from now for example you might have HR or legal as a platform so it's exciting to think about that. Maybe we'll do this podcast again in 10 years in see where we are hopefully similar to 10 years ago. If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to the show and apple podcast spotify or your favorite podcast app. Please also consider rating our show since this helps more listeners discover our podcast.
Manuel Pais delves into one of the concepts covered in his book “Team Topologies”: platform and enabling work. Manuel shares how he views the strategy behind when and how to invest in platform or enabling work. This conversation also goes into each type of work in more detail, covering topics such as measuring cognitive load and where platform engineering may be heading in the future.
- (2:13) How enabling teams and platform teams are different
- (10:28) What it looks like for a team to own both platform and enabling work
- (17:04) How to deliver enabling work in an organization
- (22:28) Whether enabling teams should be temporary
- (30:10) Platform team anti-patterns
- (47:10) Measuring cognitive load