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by Mike Kalvas

202110251148 Weaknesses of platform teams

Contrasts with 202110251148 Weaknesses of platform teams.

  1. Platforms are less likely to solve subjective or nuanced problems well. The concrete use cases and implementations that are needed to solve real-world problems can't be addressed by a team whose objective is building a general purpose platform that can solve many problems.1
  2. Context-related optimization should live close to the context. Optimizing in difficult situations may require understanding the exact, concrete case. Again, platform teams are better at maintaining general levels of competency than highly specialized instances.1
  3. Having a platform team may negatively affect your users. A team created to solve all problems may de-prioritize a real-world use case for a subset of users. There may also be situations that need to be generalized for a platform that are simply contradictory. In these instances, someone will lose out.1

  1. Ballona, D. (2021, February 15). Composition for teams: Platform and application pattern. Dballona. https://dballona.com/en/composition-for-teams-platform-and-application-pattern/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3