Field Note
The Platform Team as an Economic Function
A platform team is not a cost centre. It changes the marginal cost of safe change, and that is an economic argument, not a tooling one.
Topic
The operating reality behind technology decisions.
A platform team is not a cost centre. It changes the marginal cost of safe change, and that is an economic argument, not a tooling one.
The value of a platform is not the tooling. It is the organisational friction it makes unnecessary. Platform engineering is easy to justify badly. A team builds an
Why the gap between delivery and value is rarely a technical problem, and what it actually takes to close it.