Platform Strategy

Course overview

Developer platforms boost innovation while harmonizing and assuring compliance. Magical, but not easy to build! This book helps yo get it right.

8 parts
36 chapters
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Part 1

About this Book1 chapters

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  1. About this Book

Part 2

Part I: Understanding Platforms2 chapters

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  1. Standing on Giants’ Shoulders

  2. The Fab Four of Technology Platforms

Part 3

Part II: A Strategy for Platforms5 chapters

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  1. Formulating a Strategy

  2. Becoming a Platform Company

  3. The Platform Paradox

  4. Mapping Platforms

  5. Talking with Platform Builders: SIMBAS

Part 4

Part III: In-House Platforms7 chapters

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  1. In-House IT Platforms

  2. IT Platform and IT Services Are Antonyms

  3. Mechanisms, Not Magic

  4. Do You Have an Opinion? A Mind of Your Own?

  5. Making Platform Decisions

  6. Procuring a Platform

  7. Talking with Platform Builders: Singapore GovTech

Part 5

Part IV: Designing Platforms8 chapters

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  1. The 7 “C”s of Platform Quality

  2. Fruit Salad or Fruit Basket?

  3. Cantilevered Platforms

  4. Will Your Platform Float or Sink?

  5. Beware the Grim Wrapper!

  6. Build Abstractions Not Illusions

  7. Failure Doesn’t Respect Abstraction

  8. Platforms for AI & AI for Platforms

Part 6

Part V: Implementing Platforms3 chapters

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  1. Platform Anatomy

  2. Platform Orchestration

  3. Ownership and Tenancy

Part 7

Part VI: Growing Platforms5 chapters

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  1. Platform Evolution Is a Cube

  2. The Shape of Platforms

  3. Visualizing Platforms

  4. Charting a Platform Roadmap

  5. Tiering and Slicing

Part 8

Part VII: Organizing for Platforms5 chapters

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  1. Platform, Inc.

  2. Multi-sided Platform Teams

  3. The Customer-Centric Platform Team

  4. Platform Teams Without Platform

  5. Author Biography