Engineering Enablement by DX

Manuel Pais delves into one of the concepts covered in his book “Team Topologies”: platform and enabling work. Manuel shares how he views the strategy behind when and how to invest in platform or enabling work. This conversation also goes into each type of work in more detail, covering topics such as measuring cognitive load and where platform engineering may be heading in the future. 
  • (2:13) How enabling teams and platform teams are different 
  • (10:28) What it looks like for a team to own both platform and enabling work 
  • (17:04) How to deliver enabling work in an organization
  • (22:28) Whether enabling teams should be temporary
  • (30:10) Platform team anti-patterns
  • (47:10) Measuring cognitive load

Creators and Guests

Host
Abi Noda
Abi is the founder and CEO of DX (getdx.com), which helps engineering leaders measure and improve developer experience. Abi formerly founded Pull Panda, which was acquired by GitHub.

What is Engineering Enablement by DX?

The show focused on developer productivity and the teams and leaders dedicated to improving it. Each episode features in-depth interviews with Platform and DevEx teams, along with the latest research and approaches for measuring developer productivity. Presented by DX (getdx.com), the developer intelligence platform designed by researchers.