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Platform Authority

Platform Authority

The authority of the platform team lies not in the enforcement of standards. But in the subtle steering of the development team into one decision or the other.

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Platform level problems

Platform level problems

TLDR; Scaling teams are hard. A platform team done right can help ease the hardships.

At Conde Nast International we grew from a team of 20 engineers to less than 100 in less than a year. We found out that building out a system that will be used in many markets has a lot of moving parts and...

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Platform Leadership

Having a semi flat structure with multiple senior and principal engineer that could make agile decision is recommended. Also having a big team like this with many moving parts would mean that a technical lead role is unsuitable rather...

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Platform Member Skills

  • vendor management
  • pipeline management
  • git and scm
  • observability (logging monitoring tracing)
  • soft skill and people management
  • collaboration with other teams and negotiation with the management
  • common workflow and architecture management

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Platform Accountability

Accountability as a team is important to make sure that whenever the team is making a breaking change the rest of the teams are informed.

Blameless post mortem is a requirement to make each of the member feel safe to make changes. Building a better system at the same time taking ownership o...

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"I haven't the authority"

A tactic to imply a lack of decision-making authority. The negotiator is quite happy to accept concessions made by the other party but qualifies any concessions asked for by saying, "I'll have to check this out with my boss, as this demand exceeds my mandate".

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Fake Authority for Humanity

But there is one other thing to validate a fake authority for humanity. Arrogancy. Once someone authority is established through arrogancy, it’s time we have to cut out the link to arrogancy. Why? Because our arrogancy is always a fake arrogancy, since we need others .

AUTHORITY

AUTHORITY

  • We’re taught in childhood that we should obey authority figures such as: parents, teachers, coaches, policemen, doctors etc..
  • This carries over into adulthood where we continue to look up to and are influenced by recognized e...

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