Summary

In this chapter, we covered multiple areas where it pays to establish operational standards, enforce, or highly suggest the use of technical and functional techniques to increase the effectiveness of your platform team’s operations and deliver greater value more efficiently to the organization. As stated in the introduction, treat the contents of this chapter as a series of principles concepts for your team’s toolbox. Some of the advice might not be directly applicable to your team, and others you might have already implemented, but whatever the case, we hope it has made you think and evaluate whether you are (or are not) doing certain behaviors and understand why they may or may not be done to see whether you need to make changes.

If there is a key takeaway to leave you with at the end of this chapter, it is that good technique in both the functional and technical world requires discipline to develop, and creating discipline is a matter of establishing cadences...