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Seven ways to build effective platform teams

Platform teams are important for establishing the foundational layers of a company’s product. How can yours be more effective?
March 20, 2023

Platform teams are important for establishing the foundational layers of a company’s product. How can yours be more effective?

Over the last couple of years, the concept of having platform teams in organizations has become very common. To define the scope of a platform team, we must first delineate a stream-aligned team’s responsibilities.

As per the Team Topologies book, a stream-aligned team is “aligned to a flow of work from (usually) a segment of the business domain.” Because these teams focus on a single stream of work, they can deliver value as quickly, safely, and independently as possible.

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