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4 questions in Platform Team Topologies.

  1. Platform Team Topologies advanced

    A platform group of 12 serves 45 product teams through one intake queue of about 70 requests a week, with a median lead time of 6 working days. Leadership has approved restructuring into capability-owning teams with self-service interfaces. Plan the change so the queue is never dropped and you can stop at any stage.

    3 min answer platform teamticket opsself-servicereorganisation
  2. Platform Team Topologies advanced

    A team of six owns nineteen services and is missing every deadline. They ask for more engineers. Is that the right answer?

    2 min answer team-topologiesboundariesorganisation
  3. Platform Team Topologies advanced

    How should platform work be organised as an organisation grows, and what structure prevents the platform becoming a bottleneck?

    2 min answer team-topologiesplatformenabling-teamsbottleneck
  4. Platform Team Topologies beginner Multiple choice

    Six platform engineers support forty product teams. Each team raises roughly 1.5 requests a week and each request costs about 90 minutes of an engineer's time once the context switch is counted. Roughly how much of the team's capacity is interrupt work and what does that number rule in or out?

    2 min answer platform teaminterruptscapacityteam topologies