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How much to invest in platform work | Jean-Michel Lemieux (Shopify, Atlassian)
Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda
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John Michel Lemieux is formerly the CTO of Shopify and VP of Engineering at Atlassian. He recently published an article saying that 50% of an organization's R&D spend should be spent on platform work. We discuss why John Michel sees platform teams as an anti-pattern, how he suggests advocating for platform work, and how he decides which projects to fund. For this episode, we tried something new where we asked people on LinkedIn to submit questions for John Michel in advance. Abi Noda: How do you define what platform work is actually referring to? John Michel: I think a lack of shared understanding of what that means.
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