Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda Evolving platform and enablement at Thomson Reuters | Justin Wright, Matthew Dimich (Thomson Reuters)
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Nov 8, 2023 Justin Wright and Matthew Dimich, leaders at Thomson Reuters, discuss the evolution of their organization's structure and approach. They cover topics such as founding the platform team, key initiatives, the value of enablement, marketing the enablement team's work, and managing requests vs proactive work.
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Platform Evolution
- Thomson Reuters' platform engineering team evolved from a cloud center of excellence founded in 2015.
- It merged with data center infrastructure services in 2017 and rebranded as platform engineering in 2021.
Enablement Origins
- The 2018 divestiture of the finance and risk business (now Refinitiv) spurred the creation of an enablement team.
- This team of experts helped migrate workloads from divested data centers to the cloud.
Organic Consolidation
- Consolidating different functions under one platform organization happened organically through iterative decisions.
- This was driven by a desire to help other technologists within Thomson Reuters be more agile and innovative.