Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era.

Platform Engineering

I usually use a reseller. Depends on the vendor manager and whether it is a good use for their backlog time otherwise depends on the sale needs. Does that make sense?

never split the difference should be a skill in your job, personally

Not sure i've worked on these things recently but ERP, CRM, Loan Platform usually require a configuration engineer dedicated to one system and updating those changes. They're good but hard jobs because they can be tedious and crash the house of cards on their work.

Sorry, <@U02RCRP2XGT>, you lost me.  What “sale needs”?  And what difference should one not split?

Sorry I mean the book <https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended/dp/0062407805>

If I don't have a dedicated vendor management I might have a more complicated sale conversation. Pricing can be either easy or complicated I don't know how to get away from that other than just doing the deal so that is benefit for worth. We might be talking about different experiences

I don't if you've ever spoke to Casey Winters at Eventbrite. I wouldn't surprised if you already talked about this idea with Casey

<@U02RCRP2XGT> Maybe I shouldn’t have used the phrase “vendor management” at all; I’m not asking about the vendor-facing side of things.  I’ll try again…

One of the problems the users of my IDP have is managing source code.  The product I will deliver to solve that problem is a version control system.  We do a buy-vs-build analysis and decide that we won’t roll our own from scratch but will incorporate a commercial tool into our delivered product.  _We need to plan and account for that last mile, the work to close the gap between the off-the-shelf tool we buy and the organization-specific product we deliver._

I’m asking about that work.  It may be quite small for any given tool, but in aggregate across an entire IDP it adds up.

Oh ok! I misunderstand the ask. <https://www.amazon.com/Technology-Strategy-Patterns-Architecture/dp/1492040878>
In this <https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/technology-strategy-patterns/9781492040866/ch09.html#pattern-ghost-deck|book> Eben Hewitt uses a <https://www.notion.so/alanmbarr/Technology-Strategy-Patterns-d71d9f2fbc9341c8ad63462c2039ac81#0c723cc090604a41aa1d51a475e8b270|Ghost/Ask deck> filling in information makes a no brainer to executives. Sounds like a commodity app you make a little custom?  I did this with a good effect one and worked really well with executives.

If you have buy-in and resources then it comes down to pacing the work and communicate consistently. <https://lethain.com/migration-isnt-failing-due-to-lack-of-staffing/> that is my two cents