I've definitely seen some enabling team leaders start to do that I personally know and work with there's been for example projects where they try to curate a ton of different content and guides around developer productivity or developer experience. They serve that to the best of the organization at least as a starting point for helping those teams adopt better practices or think about ways to improve. So yeah thanks for your perspective on it and I think that's a recommendation I'll continue to to make to others as well. We're covering in this this new video course about effective enabling teams and there's a really good case study that we're going to publish and will become available to everyone.
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