enables stream-aligned teams to deliver work with substantial autonomy.
platform team
5 of our books define this term — and their definitions are worth reading side by side.
Platform team: a grouping of other team types that provide a compelling internal product to accelerate delivery by stream-aligned teams.
— Remote Team Interactions Workbook, in “Introduction”, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
a platform team sets up an infrastructure that can then be used by the delivery teams. The delivery teams can manage the full stack—they can develop, test, deploy, and operate their code—on the platform that has been engineered by the platform team
— A Seat at the Table, in “12 - Shadow IT”, Mark Schwartz
a centralized platform team that is charged with enabling the individual stream-aligned teams
— Unbundling the Enterprise, in “Chapter 6: Strategies of Success #1: Exchange Optimization”, Stephen Fishman and Matt McLarty
Platform team: a grouping of other team types that provide a compelling internal product to accelerate stream-aligned teams.
— The Value Flywheel Effect, in “Chapter 14: The Frictionless Dev Experience”, David Anderson, Mark McCann, and Michael O'Reilly
See also Platform · team · stream-aligned teams · Agility · Brooks’s law · cognitive load
Filed under Teams & Organization · Architecture & Systems