Six Deadly Sins of Platform Teams: Avoiding DevOps Pitfalls
This article explores six common pitfalls that platform teams encounter when implementing DevOps. These seemingly subtle issues can severely limit a platform team's effectiveness. Drawing on personal experience, the author delves into the root causes and provides solutions for problems related to team naming, lack of empathy, short-term versus long-term focus imbalance, confusing ease of use with simplicity, treating product engineers as customers, and over-expanding their domain. The article stresses that platform teams should focus on solving problems rather than specific solutions, build strong communication and collaboration with product teams, balance short-term and long-term goals, strive for simplicity over mere ease of use, and always prioritize end-user value.