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Good planning makes us efficient. Platforms help by improving our effectiveness.

Blogs in the platform series.

• Blog-1 → How platforms help
• Blog-2 → How to approach platforms to make them more effective
• Blog-3 → What causes platforms to slow the teams down.
• Blog-4 → when should you start investing in building out a platform.

As organizations scale, the need for collaboration and the cost of communication goes up. As a result, the teams never reap the benefits of economies of scale, rather they witness a drop in productivity, slower evolutionary cycles, higher costs to build features leading to a doom loop effect. As a business leader, you might have experienced some of the following symptoms -

• Product evolution takes a long time, not able to incorporate feedback.
• Frequently missing deadlines and the cited reason is unexpected complexity.
• Diminishing ROI, teams keep asking for more resources with an unquantifiable impact on velocity.
• Every ask is an orchestration nightmare. Connect with 10 different stakeholders to get a change out.

If you can relate to these challenges then you have built a product with a strong product-market fit that has outgrown your tech implementation and this is where “platforms” can help.

A few questions that a lot of us ask every day -