The 7 habits of highly effective platform engineering teams

Platform engineering often promises faster delivery and happier developers, yet many internal platforms struggle with low adoption and growing complexity. This talk shares seven habits of highly effective platform teams, including earning adoption by reducing developer cognitive load, treating the platform as a long-lived product, defining a clear user and value proposition, making self-service the default, measuring outcomes that matter, embracing sociotechnical realities, and continuously pruning and simplifying. Grounded in practical failures and successes, this session examines the patterns that lead platforms to succeed or quietly fail.