27Your platform roadmap is whatever engineers last complained about in Slack. How do you decide what to build?▼mediumNewAtlassianMicrosoftInfosys○ sign inComplaints measure volume and confidence, not cost. The loudest team is usually the one most comfortable complaining, which is not the same as the one losing the most time.Open full answer →
32Your platform team spends sixty percent of its time on operations and has shipped nothing in two quarters. How do you get out?▼mediumNewUberInfosysWalmart Global Tech◆ premiumOperational load is not a discipline problem. It is the interest payment on everything the team shipped without an owner, and it compounds.Open full answer →
22Reliability work keeps losing to features. How do you change that?▼mediumGoogleStripeUber2 notes & comments○ sign inBuild a reliability proposal with observed impact, uncertain risk, implementation cost and a verification plan that supports an explicit priority decision.Open full answer →
24A large internal team wants a feature on your platform that only they will use. How do you turn it down and keep them?▼mediumAtlassianGitLabSalesforce○ sign inEvaluate a bespoke platform request by its user need, lifetime support cost and available alternatives, then record the decision and any bounded exception.Open full answer →
29You join a team with no runbooks, no tests and a weekly firefight. What do you do in your first ninety days?▼mediumTCSAccentureIBM◆ premiumBuild a first-ninety-day plan from service risk and observed work, with safe shadowing, tested runbooks and one measurable operating improvement.Open full answer →