Platform-as-a-Product: First Insights from CNCF Platform Working Group's Ongoing Research

This talk explores the insights gathered by the CNCF Platforms Working Group as they investigate how organizations enhance platform maturity by treating platforms as products. The speaker outlines research objectives, data collection methods, and shares initial findings, focusing on common strategies, challenges, and best practices in platform engineering. Attendees will learn about the application of product thinking principles in platform development and how these insights can help improve their own platforms. Dominik Schmidle, a Technical Product Manager at Giant Swarm, brings over nine years of experience in IT, emphasizing a user-centered approach to developer platforms.