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Paving the Road to Effective Software Development

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This talk explores how platform teams can enable autonomous product teams through shared capabilities and paved roads. It discusses principles for building useful, low-friction platforms that preserve security, quality, and cost controls.

Syllabus

Intro
Loosely coupled architectures
Empowered teams
Autonomy
Paving the road
Our path to the paved road
Mandatory platform
Financial Times platform
Minimal platform
Guardrails
Paved road
Principles for building paved roads
Build what people need
Reduce the risk of adopting it
Don't make people wait
Make things easy to use
Allow people to extend & adapt
Help people do the right thing
Going off road
The benefits of the paved road
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Wrapping up
Principles for building the paved road
Outro

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