Build high-performing platform teams: a practical guide with real-world examples

In today's age, platform teams are playing an increasingly critical role in the success of organizations. These teams are responsible for developing and maintaining the platforms that enable businesses to innovate, grow, and compete effectively. However, building a high-performing platform team is not easy.

In this talk, we will discuss the key principles and practices for building high-performing platform teams. We’ll include a real-world example from a public sector organization to illustrate how we applied them in practice.

Key takeaways:

• The importance of ownership, having a well-defined platform mission and a great platform name!
• How to create a team culture of autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
• Practical strategies for empowering teams to solve problems, not just implement solutions.
• Practical tools and ideas to explore your platform’s ecosystem including collaboration with main consumers (developers).
• How to create feedback loops and measure the success of your platform team.

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.

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Speakers:
Cansu Kavili Örnek, Senior Architect at Red Hat
As a senior architect at Red Hat Open Innovation Labs and a passionate techie who believes in the innovative power of Open Source, I work in close collaboration with companies to form, enable, and accelerate product teams by helping them adopt DevOps culture and practices.

Anna Ciula, Platform as a Product Enthusiast and Coach
Anna, ex-senior engagement lead at Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, is a DevOps and Lean practitioner passionate about empowering product teams and fostering cross-team collaboration. Working at Open Innovation Labs, she coached customers to combine technology and open-source ways of working to solve complex business problems and maximize the value and experience for the end users.
She is one of the authors of Platform as a Product workshop that has been open-sourced via the Miroverse community.