Manuel Pais
Internal platforms (or platform engineering) are generally seen as a necessity. However, the results are often unconvincing and the investments are difficult to justify. A promising approach is to focus on this:
Speed up workflows by reducing the burden on the teams using the platform.
Build trust and measure the benefits early and continuously.
This approach ensures that platforms go beyond the mere "provision of services" and become internal engines for fast flow and growth, i.e. FastFlow, and thus have an undeniable value for the organization.
Learning objectives:
In this training, you will learn and apply simple product development techniques in a platform context and understand when and how to introduce relevant platform metrics such as service adoption, user satisfaction, engagement, reliability, etc. We will also look at some platform anti-patterns that will help us recognize when a platform's course needs to be corrected.
Target group:
This training is aimed at platform owners and managers, product managers, team leaders, platform architects, DevOps engineers and anyone involved in the introduction and further development of internal platforms for rapid processes in companies.
About Manuel Pais
Co-author of the industry changing book “Team Topologies”, Manuel is on a mission to both make work more humane and businesses more valuable to customers. Manuel delivers motivational keynotes and thought leadership on the principles and patterns for #fastflow that resonate across the organization, from C-level executives to the teams on the ground. Manuel has trained thousands of industry leaders through his courses and workshops, and helped multiple organizations pave the path for fast flow via no-BS strategic & organizational assessments. Manuel is based in Madrid but but calls Lisbon home.
Manuel has been in the industry since 2000, having worked as a developer, tester, release manager and team lead before he started consulting on DevOps and Continuous Delivery in 2015. Since the book's publication in 2019, Manuel has helped small and large organizations across multiple industries improve their software delivery but especially align organization’s technical and social systems through an understanding of constraints to flow like Conway’s Law, Team Cognitive Load, or Trust Boundaries.
Manuel holds a BSc in Computer Science from the Instituto Superior Técnico and an MSc in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.