April 2025
Intermediate
2h 39m
English
conference
The Value of Product Thinking for Platform Teams: Deliver Real Business Impact
by Rob Zuber, Raju Gandhi, Randy Shoup, Teresa Torres, Camille Fournier
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
Overview
Sponsored by CircleCI
Platform engineering can increase product engineering velocity, reduce organization-wide risks and costs, and allow product engineering teams to focus on both internal and external customer value. But it's tricky to get right. The best platform engineering teams adopt a product mindset, treating their developers and product engineers as customers whose business (and trust) must be earned.
Join host Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI, and a lineup of expert product leaders, platform engineers, and developers to learn how product thinking will help you create effective platforms that address the specific needs of your organization. You’ll learn what it takes to build and deliver a great product while overcoming common challenges and pain points, and how a CI 2.0 platform that’s optimized for validating changes from more than just code can better deliver value, ensure governance, and abstract away complexity—increasing velocity and reliability for your developer customers.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Understand what it means to build great products and platforms, and how to measure success by outcomes, not outputs
- Create winning conditions by adapting to the needs of your organization in a way that allows platform teams to deliver more effectively
- Increase trust and build a partnership between the product team and the platform team by using feedback to understand the problem you’re trying to solve
Recommended follow-up:
- Read Platform Engineering (book)
- Listen to Platform Engineering on Kubernetes (audiobook)
- Watch Infrastructure & Ops Superstream: Platform Engineering Best Practices (recorded event)
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