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Platform Engineering Strategy Workshop

Design a platform engineering strategy for a growing tech startup, defining team structure and capabilities.

30 minutes
platform-engineering/strategy
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Lab Overview

🛠 Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 1. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):

  • Week 1: DevOps & Platform Engineering Overview (slug: devops-platform-engineering-overview)

🟡 Beta bootcamp lab. Hands-on instructions, check scripts, and solve scripts are in place. Lab is part of the running TaskFlow project that grows across all 21 weeks of the bootcamp.

In this strategic lab, you'll take on the role of a platform engineering consultant helping a fast-growing startup build their first internal developer platform (IDP).

You'll learn to think strategically about platform engineering by addressing real challenges: What capabilities should a platform provide? How should platform teams be structured? What's the right balance between self-service and support?

This lab teaches the business and organizational thinking that separates platform engineers from traditional infrastructure engineers.

By the end of this lab, you'll understand how to:

  • Assess developer experience gaps and platform opportunities
  • Design platform capabilities that accelerate development teams
  • Structure platform teams for maximum impact
  • Create a platform roadmap aligned with business goals

What You'll Learn

Assess developer experience gaps and identify high-impact platform opportunities

Design Internal Developer Platform capabilities that address the top developer pain points

Structure a platform engineering team with clear roles and interaction models

Create a golden path specification and self-service catalog with measurable adoption metrics

Prerequisites

understanding of software development lifecycle

familiarity with common development challenges

Technologies Covered

platform-engineeringstrategydeveloper-experienceteam-structureroadmapping

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