Mastering Platform Engineering: From Design to Value

Internal developer platforms hold promise: faster delivery, better reliability, happier engineers. Yet they often stall—caught in organisational inertia, tool complexity, and unclear value.

These two high-impact 90-minute sessions give you the core mental models and practical artefacts to shift from tool-chase to strategic platform value. You’ll walk away with real maps, a clear focus, and next-step experiments—not just ideas. If you’re looking to make your platform team a force for value, not just operations, this compact format delivers.

By the end of the workshop you'll know:
How to see your platform ecosystem clearly using tools like Wardley Mapping, User Needs Mapping, Value Stream Mapping and OODA loops.
How to treat the platform as a product, shifting mindset from internal project to self-service, developer-centric product.
How to apply the pattern language of platform design (Golden Path, Self-Service, Abstraction, Composability, Guardrails, Observability, Extensibility, Incremental Roll-out).
How to use DSRP + UNM + VSM to reveal where value stalls, flow breaks, and cognitive load spikes.
How to design smallest viable changes, build an impact roadmap, and influence adoption through “Elephant & Rider” thinking (rational vs emotional mindsets).
You'll also get a sneak peek into the future of platforms: AI/automation, evolving loops, and building resilience into your ecosystem.
If your platform team is stuck in the grind—shipping tickets, fighting fires, juggling tools, and wondering why nothing ever seems to change—this workshop will give you the clarity and leverage you’ve been missing. You’ll learn to read your organisation like a map: where value flows, where it dies, where cognitive load spikes, and where small, strategic platform moves can unlock disproportionate impact.

This isn’t another “tools tour”. Whether you’re building an IDP from scratch or rescuing one that’s drifting, you’ll leave with a clear roadmap, a set of tested patterns, and the influence skills to actually make the work land. Platform engineering is no longer about managing complexity—it’s about creating the conditions where developers can thrive. Join us, map your ecosystem, design the future, and turn your platform team into the strategic engine your organisation needs.

By the end of this half day workshop you'll know:

How to see your platform ecosystem clearly using tools like Wardley Mapping, User Needs Mapping, Value Stream Mapping and OODA loops.
How to treat the platform as a product, shifting mindset from internal project to self-service, developer-centric product.
How to apply the pattern language of platform design (Golden Path, Self-Service, Abstraction, Composability, Guardrails, Observability, Extensibility, Incremental Roll-out).
How to use DSRP + UNM + VSM to reveal where value stalls, flow breaks, and cognitive load spikes.
How to design smallest viable changes, build an impact roadmap, and influence adoption through “Elephant & Rider” thinking (rational vs emotional mindsets).
You'll also get a sneak peek into the future of platforms: AI/automation, evolving loops, and building resilience into your ecosystem.
If your platform team is stuck in the grind—shipping tickets, fighting fires, juggling tools, and wondering why nothing ever seems to change—this workshop will give you the clarity and leverage you’ve been missing. You’ll learn to read your organisation like a map: where value flows, where it dies, where cognitive load spikes, and where small, strategic platform moves can unlock disproportionate impact.

This isn’t another “tools tour”. Whether you’re building an IDP from scratch or rescuing one that’s drifting, you’ll leave with a clear roadmap, a set of tested patterns, and the influence skills to actually make the work land. Platform engineering is no longer about managing complexity—it’s about creating the conditions where developers can thrive. Join us, map your ecosystem, design the future, and turn your platform team into the strategic engine your organisation needs.