Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda

Platform teams vs enabling teams | Manuel Pais (Team Topologies)

Jun 7, 2023

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The Importance of Balancing Infrastructure and Value in Internal Developer Platforms

01:20

Enabling Product Teams with SRE and UX Skills

01:20

Introduction

5min

The Importance of Sharing Language in Team Topologies

3min

The Importance of Enabling Teams

2min

How to Create Enabled Teams

3min

The Importance of Enabling Work

4min

How to Build an Enabled Team

5min

How to Break Out of Enabling Teams

4min

The Importance of Long-Living Enabled Teams in Data Science

3min

The Importance of Enabling Work in Product Teams

3min

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The Anti-Patterns of Platform Blocking

3min

11.

The Rise of Platforms in Organizations

4min

12.

The Importance of Productization in Platform Teams

4min

13.

The Limits of Platform Teams

3min

14.

How to Measure Cognitive Load

4min

15.

The Future of Platform Engineering

3min

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