Platform teams: the eternal debate
https://jchyip.medium.com/bad-idea-platforms-automatically-improve-productivity-ed8f15ce2c41 Bad idea: Platforms automatically improve productivity. As I’ve said previously, productivity is the ratio of the value of Impact to the cost of Effort. As a CTO, one of the unsolved challenges is whether to have a platform team or not. This article explores the downside of building platform teams.
I think the article is a little bit biased and presents only one way of implementing platform teams. I still believe that platform teams are a net-positive, but only when they use golden paths to achieve their goals.