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Building High-Performance Software Teams
This article is part of a series on transforming into a high-performance digital organization. To explore the six key themes and start your transformation journey, click here → High-performance software teams are the backbone of a successful digital transformation. These teams are responsible for delivering high-quality software at a rapid pace and for driving innovation and maintaining…
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Transforming into a High-Performance Digital Organization (HPDO): Six Key Themes
Based on extensive research and practical engagement with organizations of varying sizes and across continents, DASA has identified six critical themes essential for achieving High-Performance Digital Organizations (HPDOs). These themes form the cornerstone of successful digital transformation initiatives, addressing most encountered challenges and promising opportunities faced by enterprises. Each organization is unique, with its own…
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Four Challenges of Platform Teams: Insights from ThoughtWorks Experts
Platform engineering is crucial to driving innovation, scaling development, and ensuring seamless integration across organizations. As platform engineers, we often face complex challenges that require strategic solutions, a deep understanding of technology, and the ability to align with broader business goals. In this article, we share our experiences working within platform engineering and discuss some…
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Empowering Product Managers: Tools for Effective Product Management
In the ever-evolving realm of product management, navigating the journey from ideation to market success can be intricate and unpredictable. Strategic decisions, design iterations, and operational hurdles are just a few of the challenges product managers face daily. This article aims to illuminate the path for product managers by showcasing how a comprehensive suite of…
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Transforming Product Development with Product Discovery: A Guide to Understanding Customer Needs
In today’s fast-paced market, understanding customer needs early in the product development lifecycle can make the difference between a product’s success and its failure. Product discovery is the critical phase where these needs are identified and validated, ensuring that development resources are used efficiently and effectively. Despite its importance, many product managers struggle with this…
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Customer-Centric Engineering: Prioritizing User Needs in Platform Development
According to Gartner’s research, 80% of enterprises will establish platform teams by 2026 as internal providers of reusable IT infrastructure services, components, and tools for smooth application delivery. However, this shift brings unique challenges and risks for enterprises and their leaders. Among these challenges, one of the most critical is the need to adopt a…
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Building Effective Platforms: Best Practices for Architecture and Adoption
In the realm of platform engineering, implementing the correct approach towards architecting, building, and adopting platforms is critical for ensuring operational efficiency and strategic alignment. Effective platform architecture and governance frameworks are essential for maintaining the reliability and performance of platforms, such as cloud infrastructure or server clusters.This article aims to provide actionable insights and…
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Strategic Engineering: Aligning Your Platform Initiatives with Business Goals
Introduction Platform engineering is emerging as a critical component in the modern DevOps landscape. It involves the creation and management of shared, scalable platforms that support software development and operations. By leveraging cloud-native technologies, microservices architectures, and continuous delivery mechanisms, platform engineering enables businesses to build and deploy applications faster than ever before. This philosophy…
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How to Assess and Improve Your Team’s Capabilities in Product Management
The role of product management is increasingly crucial, serving as a key driver of innovation and strategic alignment within organizations. It ensures products meet customer needs and company goals. Yet, navigating new technologies, diverse projects, and changing customer expectations presents challenges that can cause inefficiencies and misalignments. This underscores the need for regular assessment and…
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Understanding Product Management: Bridging the gap with Project Management
Product Management emerges as a pivotal discipline in the dynamic realm of DevOps, playing a crucial role in the comprehensive process of planning, developing, and managing a product throughout its lifecycle. This includes defining the product’s features, ensuring its quality, and consistently aligning with customer needs. Product Managers lead the charge, steering the product vision,…
