7 ways to fail at building a platform

As a preview, the seven areas are expansive scopes, underestimating cost, project mindsets, death by customization, skills, security and compliance, and resume-driven development.

The audience can learn from the many people who have already suffered these risks and, hopefully, avoid them themselves.

To help the audience avoid these pitfalls, the session covers the thinking people use to be more successful:

• How to discover the full scope of platform engineering across silos.
• How to calculate costs and performance end to end.
• Plans and criteria for evaluating build-versus-buy decisions for internal developer platforms.
• How to build a strategy and staffing plan for platform engineering.
• How product management distinguishes platform engineering from traditional ops and DevOps.