What Makes Platform Teams Succeed(and Why Others Don’t)

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What Makes Platform Teams Succeed (and Why Others Don’t) From Team Topologies to Dynamic Reteaming, from Platform Strategy to the latest insights from the industry, a journey through literature and lessons learned building successful platforms for 1k+ developers. Most talks about platform engineering focus on tools. This presentation is about people, and how to build and nurture the right team for success. Join to learn what made some of the platform teams Riccardo Capraro worked with succeed — and why others didn’t. What will you find here? – An overview of different frameworks to understand (platform) teams dynamics – Patterns and anti-patterns when building platform teams, explained with examples seen in the wild – Fresh insights from people like you: managers, architects and platform engineers who have succeeded and failed at building platforms. We collected opinions from experts in the industry, and brought them to you here. And yes, you’ll get the chance to share your thoughts too! – And finally, concrete questions to help you challenge your current setup Platforms are about orchestration. They need to ship faster than your organization is moving. However, they can only go as fast (and be as resilient) as the team that is building them. Let’s explore this together! This talk will be in English Riccardo Capraro DevOps, Cloud & Platform Engineer - From Paper to Production – Freelancer Riccardo Capraro helps companies deliver impact by leading the design and implementation of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), cloud architectures, and managing their critical applications in production. He offers a unique combination of hands-on experience operating high-stakes applications at scale, in different business domains, and a wide breadth of knowledge spanning the whole software lifecycle, from the single line of code up to production operations. He successfully migrated pipelines, delivered applications to production, guided teams to design and implement their IDPs, and more. These are the some of the topics he talks about: – How to design, build the team, and implement Internal Developer Platforms with DevEx in mind – ArgoCD, FluxCD & GitOps – Crossplane – Kubernetes operators and custom resources – Neo4j and graph databases – Complexity theory and the Cynefin Framework – Pipeline Design He organizes Cloud Native Trento and the Vienna DevOps Meetup group.