13 Internal developer platforms

This chapter covers

  • Creating a slick developer experience to enable fast flow
  • Determining the capabilities of an internal developer platform
  • Managing an internal developer platform with a modern product management approach
  • Deciding when to build an internal developer platform

Independent value streams enable fast flow by empowering teams to make most of the decisions that affect their value stream, like giving them more responsibility to deploy and support their applications. However, the extra responsibilities will be counterproductive if the complexity of building, deploying, and supporting code is too high. Teams will spend too much time on extraneous tasks that don’t contribute to product enhancements.

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