There's a whole other kind of world of platforms that we could think about and that we're starting to see which are not even technical at all you can think about design platforms. We start to see organizations where the legal team for example is looking at themselves as a platform so they're trying to help with common cases. Data platforms also becoming more popular but even other platforms we're starting To see an interesting example from a company called kapra consulting they're based in Norway who actually try to apply team topologies approach to the whole organization.
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