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WHY YOU SHOULD TREAT YOUR PLATFORM AS A PRODUCT
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wWhy you should treat your platform as a product
Your platform is not an off-the-shelf piece of software ; it ’ s an evolving set of reusable services , integrated with your existing systems to create valuable outcomes for your business . The platform capabilities change in response to the needs of its user – your app developers – among whom it ’ s a recognizable internal brand . In other words , you should treat your platform as a product .
The VMware Tanzu Labs platform-asproduct approach The VMware Tanzu Labs platform-as-product approach combines product management , user-centered design ( UCD ), agile , extreme programming ( XP ), and site reliability engineering ( SRE ) practices . A dedicated , balanced platform team uses these practices to both build and run the platform product . Here ’ s what the four different areas in the Tanzu Labs approach look like in practice :
• Lean product management : Determines what the platform team will build .
• UCD : Helps to inform both the what and the why using feedback to de-risk decisions and enable continuous improvement .
• Agile software development with XP : Provides a clear methodology for how the team should build the platform .
• SRE : Defines how the team runs the platform product , including how to balance the conflicting goals of feature delivery , security , and availability .
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