Check the track videos here: Platform Impact - Day 1

Hi all, check out mine & @Giorgia Amici’s session on From cloud cost management to FinOps if you have any questions/queries, do reach out to us session link: https://platformcon.com/talks/from-cloud-cost-management-to-finops Thanks 🙂

Amazing story by @Bryan Finster https://platformcon.com/talks/platform-as-agents-of-enterprise-improvement The need for support from the higher ups cannot be understated, and I believe we often struggle to keep them on board.

Hey folks! Check out my talk on How To Make an Impact as a Platform PM: Let me know if any questions/feedback/interesting topics that I maybe haven't covered. Enjoy the conference.

👋🏻 Hi, all! I’m Kendra Skeene, and I’m Senior Director of Product at Ad Hoc - a government consulting company with teams that build platforms for large US government organizations. One thing @Andrew Gunsch and I find ourselves doing fairly often is to paint the picture to the technical leadership of large organizations about why their orgs would benefit from an internal developer platform. We tell you all about it in How to make the business case for an Internal Developer Platform, which is available all day today. Re-examining the application ecosystem from management’s perspective shows priorities that platforms can help with: Security, risk mitigation, governance, cost controls, and increasing focus on delivering business value. In this session, we’ll cover how to: • Make the business case for platforms beyond the technical story • Tie in organizational narratives around standards and governance • Compare the cost of building a platform vs. not having one

Hey all 👋🏻! I'm Saim (Cross posting here to find new friends), and I'm working on the Paralus OS project to help platform and platform teams to choose Key design considerations and tradeoffs that can leverage to enable secure k8s access, How Paralus OSS can help platform teams enable a seamless kubectl experience, and centralize the config of k8s access controls for their developers across clusters running in public cloud environments and/or on-premise data centers, and you can find my talk here: https://platformcon.com/talks/enable-secure-self-service-access-to-kubernetes-clusters-with-paralusLet me know what you think - and if you want to discuss anything Kubernetes access management, Internal Developer Portals, or Guiding principles for platform and platform teams with me -> I'm here and also here #rafay-at-platformcon23 https://platformcon.com/talks/enable-secure-self-service-access-to-kubernetes-clusters-with-paralus

Hi everyone- Excited to share my talk, DevEx: What actually drives productivity. This talks presents research on what does (and doesn’t) predict productivity. Relates to my recent ACM paper: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595878 If you have questions or comments, I’m here!

Hey folks 👋 Check out the talk on automating production readiness, then head to #opslevel-at-platformcon23 to get more resources and ask questions (or just say hi!)

Howdy Platform Engineering folks 🤠! I’m from Zeet, a PlatformCon sponsor dedicated to making infrastructure and deployments easier for startups and growing enterprises. In our talk, , we interviewed CTOs who started their companies on IDPs and have been implementing Platform Engineering from day 1. I would also like to invite you to join our channel #zeet-at-platformcon23 for the duration of the conference. We will comment on the talks and talk about developer platforms/portals, developer self-service, and multi-cloud. We’ll be hanging out in our channel, so feel free to swing by!

@Abi Noda really useful talk! How do you account for the fact that highly productive engineering teams may have developers with diverse experience levels and backgrounds, contradicting the findings that experience level and pedigree do not predict team productivity?

@Lambros Charissis thanks for your talk on how to measure platform engineering impact. In my experience one of the most challenging aspects of platform engineering is sustaining investments to continue and grow. I would love to get insights in how you came to the $cost for some of these metrics. I understand the high level and understand for such a short talk it is beyond scope to explain it, but it is the real meat of the story. I have worked with many of the same metrics and calculations but have always lacked the right material to defend it when put against projects investments where ROI is easier to calculate such as end products sold to external customers. E.g. You mentioned to for example take cost of a feature as an aspect to calculate impact of an engineer/hour. Cost of a feature is mostly fictive if you don't have the metrics on how much that feature contributed to an end product - which is usually a small piece of the puzzle. Also new features are often built on your existing platform reusing years of previous investments which are hard to set a price for today. It will be much more expensive for the consuming party to build it without your platform, but exactly how much more expensive is fictive and experience-based estimates people frequently disagree on. Getting to a number for such metrics that can be defended is a challenge. Same for some of the other metrics like cost of a single incident. If you are lucky you could take it from history, like lost sales due to a certain issue or defect but more often this is not the case. Would love to learn how you found some of the $cost for your scenarios and if you feel you could defend them when put under pressure.

@Johnny Dallas Great talk! With the rapid evolution of cloud technologies and the emergence of new tools and services, how does a developer platform keep up with these changes and ensure that the startups relying on it have access to the latest innovations and best practices?

Big fan of your talk @Bryan Finster. Made my first ever slack just for this Q&A! I think many people make the same mistake you highlighted at the beginning. People are building platforms because it is the hot new thing and it is written about by Gartner🙄 and then when they are not getting good outcomes, they are blaming platform engineering itself. I know other people here talked about internal mrkting but I am curious from your side. How do you tell your boss when you see they are building a platform for the wrong reasons with the wrong focus and it is doomed to fail?

HI @Manjunath Bhat I though your talk was great. It made me realize that I need to spend more focus on stakeholder needs while still focussing on IDP customer needs (i.e the devs) To all on this channel. I am looking at developing an official value proposition for the Internal Development Platform that I am a Technical Product Manager of (at GSoft) . Can anyone recommend other talks at platformcon that could be insightful? Thanks!

Hey folks. I am Aaron, one of the speakers in this track, covering the . Here today and tomorrow if anyone has questions.

Hi everyone, my talk about how we quantify Platform Engineering impact at Wise is scheduled for today: Feel free to hit me up with any questions throughout the day 🙂

Greetings from Norway 🇧🇻 . Happy to answer any questions around my talk today! https://platformcon.com/talks/why-treat-your-new-internal-developer-platform-as-a-startup

Welcome to Day 2!! 🎉 I’m from Logilica and my talk is about our perspective of how to demonstrate the ROI of your platform engineering initiatives and how to support the business case using the right proxy metrics. Our key messages are: • frame platform engineering as value add to your business • find some reference points management can google (DORA, SPACE, Flow etc.) • make the case for evidence based value delivery through proxy metrics • give live visibility to leadership to remove the fear of the “black box” engineering transformation • live happily ever after 😉 Love to have a chat and hear your feedback!

Hi platform engineering fellows! 👋 🕵️‍♀️ Are you about to start the Developer Experience Initiative in your organization and don't know where to begin? 👨‍💻 Maybe you've already started but you struggle to keep sufficient response rates to your surveys or to find best metrics? ➡️I am working on a project to help with collecting developer experience data from developers and putting it in context to better understand the state of developer experience and development bottlenecks. You can get short demo of the project 🍿 and sample starting-point DevEx survey with simple guide for result analysis 🤓 here: https://studiodevx.com/ If you are interested in discussing DevEx please join #devex channel📣

Hi everyone 👋, great conference so far! 👏 My talk is about applying #platform thinking across the entire organization. It includes a "state of the union" on #platformengineering - what have we done well so far and what might still be missing? I'll be answering questions ❓ here from 7pm-9pm CEST | 12pm-2pm CDT. Join in and let me know what you think: can the #platform mindset be applied more broadly than #Engineering? What are the challenges you see? 🚧

@Manuel Pais (co-author Team Topologies) Your plant looked healthier last year 😄

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm excited to be here at this amazing conference and share my thoughts on applying platform thinking across organizations with 3 axes in mind — People, Tech & Business. You can catch my talk on YouTube at this link: Don't miss out, and I look forward to hearing your insights and feedback. 😘

Hey everyone! Recording this talk on our approach to Platform Engineering at SAP was a tonne of fun. Please do let me know if you have any comments or questions, I'd love to hear from you ☺️

👋 Hey folks! Happy Day 2 of PlatformCon! My talk around Automating Production Readiness is live. I cover how to get started with production readiness, gain buy-in, and how to avoid the toil of verifying requirements checklists through automation. I’ll also be around from 12pm - 2pm CDT to answer any questions. Check it out 👇 https://platformcon.com/talks/automating-production-readiness-a-practical-guide-for-platform-engineers

Good day. I found @Manuel Pais (co-author Team Topologies) talk really useful. Thank you for a great presentation. I got one question. Are there any specific challenges or considerations when it comes to aligning the goals and processes of engineering teams with non-engineering departments in order to achieve faster flow of value to customers?

Hi Team! I’m proud to present my session on working backwards and value stream management adoption. I’d love to know if you’re working on stream-aligning your organization and measuring delivery performance across teams, and I’d love to hear any questions about the session! https://platformcon.com/talks/working-backwards-to-drive-platform-adoption

Hi folks! I’m Hester and I’m part of the Compass team at Atlassian. We’re super excited to be here and meet all of you! Compass is a developer experience platform from Atlassian that helps reduce cognitive load, create a better developer experience, and promote a healthy engineering culture of continuous improvement and learning. Compass brings a company’s distributed software architecture and the teams collaborating on them together in a single, unified place. Please check out our talks below and feel free to ask us any questions here or on the #atlassian-at-platformcon23 https://platformcon.com/talks/smash-through-the-complexity-limit-and-turn-every-team-into-a-tiger-team

@Lambros Charissis - I really enjoyed your talk on quantifying platform engineering impact. I have been grappling with how to get at that "impact for developer" value to really get at that increased productivity KPI. Can you explain in a little more detail how you were able to get to that value?

Here in the slack if anyone has questions about my talk on "7 deadly sins!"

Hi @Manjunath Bhat, your talk "How to communicate the business value of platform engineering" was a real eye-opener and wonderfully to the point. I would like to rewatch it and also share it within my network, but it seems to been taken off of YouTube. Is there a way we can access the recording? Thank you so much!