A Platform team enables stream-aligned teams to deliver work with autonomy by providing internal services to reduce the cognitive load that would be needed by those teams to develop those services1.
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A platform team’s value can be measured by the value of the services they provide to product teams
Expected Behaviors:
- Strong collaboration with stream-aligned teams to understand their needs
- fast prototyping to receive fast feedback from the SA teams
- Focus on usability and reusability of their services
- Dog foods their own services
- Understands the adoption of internal new services is not immediate but evolves along an adoption curve
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Skelton, M., Pais, M. & Malan, R. Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow. (IT Revolution Press, Portland, OR, 2019).