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Creating a Culture of High Performance
This article is part of a series on transforming into a high-performance digital organization. To explore the six key themes and start your transformation journey, click here → Creating a high-performance culture is essential for sustaining the benefits of agile and DevOps practices. A culture that fosters a growth mindset, encourages continuous learning, and ensures psychological safety…
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Measuring and Communicating Value Realization
Platform engineering teams are the backbone of many organizations, yet their contributions often remain hidden, operating behind the scenes to ensure seamless development and infrastructure operations. Understanding and communicating the value of these teams is crucial to ensure efforts align with broader business objectives. The Three Steps to Realizing Value There are three key steps…
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Four Challenges of Platform Teams: Insights from ThoughtWorks Experts
Platform engineering is crucial to driving innovation, scaling development, and ensuring seamless integration across organizations. As platform engineers, we often face complex challenges that require strategic solutions, a deep understanding of technology, and the ability to align with broader business goals. In this article, we share our experiences working within platform engineering and discuss some…
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Empowering Product Managers: Tools for Effective Product Management
In the ever-evolving realm of product management, navigating the journey from ideation to market success can be intricate and unpredictable. Strategic decisions, design iterations, and operational hurdles are just a few of the challenges product managers face daily. This article aims to illuminate the path for product managers by showcasing how a comprehensive suite of…
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Elevating Product Success: Maximizing Value, Impact, and Experience
In the dynamic realm of product management, the triad of value, impact, and experience stands as the cornerstone for the success of any product. These core concepts dictate not only a product’s market relevance but also its ability to exceed customer expectations and achieve business goals. In this blog post, we delve into the foundational…
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Transforming Product Development with Product Discovery: A Guide to Understanding Customer Needs
In today’s fast-paced market, understanding customer needs early in the product development lifecycle can make the difference between a product’s success and its failure. Product discovery is the critical phase where these needs are identified and validated, ensuring that development resources are used efficiently and effectively. Despite its importance, many product managers struggle with this…
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Strengthening Your Portfolio Board: Best Practices for Desired Behavior
Understanding the Challenge A strong and effective portfolio board is crucial for the success of portfolio management within any organization. The portfolio board is responsible for overseeing the collection of projects, products, or services, ensuring they align with strategic goals and deliver maximum value. However, poor communication and collaboration within the portfolio board can significantly…
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Beyond Building: Solving Scaling Complexities in Platform Engineering
Scaling platform engineering presents a unique set of complexities that go beyond the initial construction of platforms. As organizations grow, they often encounter challenges related to alignment, stakeholder support, and collaboration. These issues can hinder the scalability and efficiency of platform engineering initiatives. This article emphasizes advanced strategies to move beyond the mere construction of…
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Customer-Centric Engineering: Prioritizing User Needs in Platform Development
According to Gartner’s research, 80% of enterprises will establish platform teams by 2026 as internal providers of reusable IT infrastructure services, components, and tools for smooth application delivery. However, this shift brings unique challenges and risks for enterprises and their leaders. Among these challenges, one of the most critical is the need to adopt a…
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Building Effective Platforms: Best Practices for Architecture and Adoption
In the realm of platform engineering, implementing the correct approach towards architecting, building, and adopting platforms is critical for ensuring operational efficiency and strategic alignment. Effective platform architecture and governance frameworks are essential for maintaining the reliability and performance of platforms, such as cloud infrastructure or server clusters.This article aims to provide actionable insights and…
