Throughout my career in platform engineering, I’ve navigated the tension between giving teams autonomy and consolidating processes. Striking this balance can be the key to boosting efficiency—or, if mishandled, a drag on progress. In a recent panel I led, we explored: • The drive for standardization: What’s behind…
In a recent panel I led, we dove into the world of internal platforms—those essential tools, APIs, and resources that engineering teams build to support their colleagues across the organization. We framed the conversation around how platform engineering isn’t so different from customer-facing product teams, applying product thinking…
Last year, I had the pleasure of presenting a talk on the Montessori method and leadership at Devoxx Benelux. I was thrilled to offer an enhanced version of this presentation in the UK. In contrast to the enormous cinema hall that hosted me in Belgium, the 120-seat room in the…
It was great to join the great community at DevOps Exchange in London to talk about Product Metrics for Internal Platforms. This was an introduction to the topic, so if you are already familiar with concepts such as Platform as a Product and Outcome-based Product development, you may find my…
Last week I presented in Belgium in front of the passionate Devoxx audience a talk on how I use the Montessori principles as a leadership tool. Very impressed with the Devoxx organisation; it is not an easy feat to run a conference with 3000+ attendees smoothly. I shared for the…
Last week I was part of a Panel discussing Platform teams/products with Gábor Csomák, Jason Dryhurst-Smith, Ketan Gupta, and our fantastic host Michael Sullivan. The recording is now available, and it covers a lot of exciting topics on Internal Platforms (think your Cloud team) or External Platforms (think Amazon…
I had a great time prepping for the interview with CTO Mastermind and Alex has been an incredible host. Truly an interesting conversation where I expanded on a number of topics close to my heart: * what companies should focus on to make the employee engaged and high performing* * why autonomy…
A few months ago, the incredible Emma Hopkinson-Spark interviewed me during one of the CTOCraft bytes events. The discussion was a 360 view on leadership and people, but the core part we really delve into where: * employees motivation and why most companies are doing it wrong * how autonomy needs to…