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Building a platform engineering team

Building a platform engineering team

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Building a platform engineering team

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- [Instructor] So we've identified the problems, and we have a good idea how to build a developer platform to address them. Now we need a skilled, diverse team to build it. It's important to understand the distinction between products and projects. Projects have a limited scope, budget, and a definitive outcome. When a project ends, the team typically disbands to join other project teams as needed. Product teams, on the other hand, are responsible over the long term for a product that lives indefinitely. The team and the product are funded continuously for the full duration of the product lifetime. It would be quite difficult to build an IDP on a project basis. They're complex and must constantly evolve alongside the software delivery ecosystem. It's important for all stakeholders to think of the developer platform as an evergreen product, and for the platform engineering team staffing to be stable. Most importantly, everyone must agree that the platform engineering team exists…

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