I've recently been working on a similar project on the economics of internal developer platforms which will be publicly available in Late Oct this year. For most teams I work with investment in platform engineering is justified when (regulatory compliance requirements, Improving developer productivity and satisfaction, resources to optimize costs) and there's always more*,* Has anyone here done a similar breakdown as described in this article calculating the ROI of platform engineering found this to be magnificent effort and template to start with*, what's your thoughts on input to calculating the ROI:* Average developer rate, Number of development teams to onboard per year, Average number of people on the development team, Average platform engineer rate, Platform team size, Average infrastructure overhead costs per development team, What new dimensions to extend this list, importantly what's your thoughts on "is platform engineering answer to Technical Debt in Cloud Computing" Link: https://www.engineeringprimer.com/p/the-economics-of-internal-developer

This is really really good and insightful! Thank you for sharing @Saim Safdar