Platform engineering impact: Mapping engineering outcomes to business value

Conveying the value of platform engineering to business leaders often poses a challenge due to its perceived technical endeavor. This session outlines a strategy to address this challenge.

While the merits of platform engineering are clear to technical professionals, conveying these benefits in terms that resonate with business executives can pose a challenge. In this session, we will delve into methods for measuring the impact of platform engineering, tracing a path from its technical capabilities through to the resultant business outcomes.

Many fast-growing organizations grapple with the complexities of managing a sprawling landscape of tools and infrastructure, the overwhelming cognitive load on developers, and sluggish time to market due to inefficiencies in their delivery pipelines. Adopting a platform engineering model reduces friction by abstracting non-essential complexities and providing self-service capabilities for cross-cutting concerns of development teams. Platforms are technology foundations that accelerate an enterprise’s ability to deliver value for its people and its customers. Yet, demonstrating the tangible business value of platform engineering is not straightforward. This session will outline a strategy for aligning platform engineering initiatives with business objectives in a manner that garners the endorsement by business sponsors.