Is It Worth It? Four Metrics to Determine Platform Efficiency

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1 Is it worth it? 4 Metrics to Determine Platform Efficiency Michael Stahnke VP Platform Engineering @stahnma

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2 It’s not a silo, it’s a barn. Concentrating your efficiencies into a platform organization. Michael Stahnke VP Platform Engineering @stahnma

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3 @stahnma

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Silo gif 4 @stahnma

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Stream Aligned Teams 5 @stahnma

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Collaboration is expensive 6 @stahnma

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Silo gif 7 @stahnma

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Stream Aligned Teams 9 @stahnma

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Team that support stream aligned teams. 10 @stahnma

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Extract the common functions 11 @stahnma

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What is the ROI of a platform organization? 12 @stahnma

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Team Payroll divided something? 13 @stahnma

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Don’t want a cost center mentality. 14 @stahnma

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Don’t want subsidies. 15 @stahnma

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The I is easy 16 @stahnma

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The O is on. Skip it. 17 @stahnma

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Measuring Returns. 18 @stahnma

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What is business actively willing to invest in? 19 @stahnma

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Consult on Security 20 @stahnma

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Provide cost management 21 @stahnma

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Drive availability 22 @stahnma

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Running infrastructure 23 @stahnma

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Build common libraries to do common things 24 @stahnma

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4 Pillars slide 25 @stahnma

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Annual Revenue / Time. 26 @stahnma

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100 million / 525600 = $190.25/min 27 @stahnma

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Of course that’s not evenly distributed. 28 @stahnma

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Tackling Costs. 29 @stahnma

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CoGS. 30 @stahnma

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This is the easy one. 31 @stahnma

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Security. 33 @stahnma

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Are you good at security? 34 @stahnma

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Compliance. 35 @stahnma

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Don’t want a cost center mentality. 36 @stahnma

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Map compliance requests to revenue/prospects. 37 @stahnma

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Cost center again 38 @stahnma

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Developer Throughput. 39 @stahnma

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How do we measure developer productivity? 40 @stahnma

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Some ideas. 41 @stahnma

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What makes stream aligned teams developers more effective? 42 @stahnma

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Leverage on tooling. 43 @stahnma

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Leverage on libraries. 44 @stahnma

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Leverage on process. 45 @stahnma

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Diagram of hiring here vs there. 46 @stahnma

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Diagram of hiring here vs there. 47 @stahnma

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Diagram of hiring here vs there. 48 @stahnma

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49 When is hiring platform developers (enablement/efficiency engineers) more effective than hiring stream aligned developers? @stahnma

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Sentiment 50 @stahnma

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Adoption 51 @stahnma

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Paved road vs water slide. 52 @stahnma

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Slide that says Summary 53 @stahnma

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54 Pillars of Platform Availability Cost for Downtime COGS Cost for Services in support of Gross Margin Security Attach Rate and dollar value for compliance docs and security questionnaires Developer Productivity Hiring Tradeoffs, time to value Developer Sentiment Developer Adoption @stahnma

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55 Pillars of Platform Availability Cost for Downtime COGS Cost for Services in support of Gross Margin Security Attach Rate and dollar value for compliance docs and security questionnaires Developer Productivity Hiring Tradeoffs, time to value Developer Sentiment Developer Adoption @stahnma

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56 Twitter’s Engineering Effectiveness Let 1,000 Flowers Bloom - http://www.gigamonkeys.com/ flowers/ The SPACE of developer Productivity. Research paper from Nicole Forsgren, GitHub Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria Chandra Maddila, Thomas Zimmermann, Brian Houck, and Jenna Butler, Microsoft Research https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3454124 GitLab MR Rate https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/merge- request-rate/ Further Reading Materials on Developer Productivity @stahnma

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57 Thank you Michael Stahnke @stahnma