Culture
June 10

The challenges of platform teams (and how to solve them)

Almost every company is trying to use an internal platform product. But building an effective one is no easy feat. Join us to explore how to avoid the pitfalls we've seen and learned from.

User-centricity, consistency, simplicity, usability, continuous business value delivery, product alignment with business vision-mission and goals... All these pillars build the foundation of successful products and innovative product organizations.

However, we face major challenges when translating product thinking to platforms and applying Agile and software development practices in platform teams. In this talk, we’ll review these challenges and explain how to overcome them.

Marco Pierobon
Lead Developer, Thoughtworks
Marisa Martín Serrano
Technical Product Manager, Thoughtworks_Spain
Marco Pierobon

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