Platform therapy: Start with Minimum Viable Platforms (MVP)

Most platform engineering challenges aren’t technical problems. They're people's problems. In this session, Mallory will walk you through how to build a Minimum Viable Platform (MVP) by focusing on team needs, not just tools or architecture.

In one real-world example, a large enterprise platform team spent three full days with our trainer, Mallory, aligning on a shared platform vision and resolving stakeholder conflicts. By the end, they had a clear MVP and a plan to advocate for it across teams. This session draws from lessons like these to help you focus on what really matters. During this webinar, you’ll learn:

• How to define a simple starting point for your platform
• How to show early value using metrics and fulfilling real team needs
• How to show platform impact early in order to get support from leadership

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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Speaker:
Mallory Haigh - Workshop host @ Platform Engineering

Mallory is Platform Engineering's workshop host with a background in customer support and success, full-stack software engineering, engineering management, and focusing on the strength of combining humans and technology. She brings a passion for education, the anthropological approach to software engineering, and improving developer experience to her role at Humanitec. When not connecting people with their platforms, Mallory is an avid equestrian and hobby farmer, and also a cat and dog mom.