Charles Humble talks to Paula Kennedy about the rise of platforms. They discuss platform definitions; common anti-patterns and how to guard agai

Podcast: Syntasso COO Paula Kennedy on Platform Team Responsibilities, Patterns and Anti-patterns

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2023-03-26 13:30:02

Charles Humble talks to Paula Kennedy about the rise of platforms. They discuss platform definitions; common anti-patterns and how to guard against them at both a team and organisational level; proving the value of a platform team to the business; setting up a platform team; lessons learned from Pivotal; and the Syntasso product.

Paula is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Syntasso; her previous roles include senior director of Tanzu Global Education at VMware, senior director of Platform Services EMEA at Pivotal and co-founder & Chief Operating Officer of CloudCredo.

Working in the IT industry for over 20 years, Paula is passionate about community, diversity and inclusion and has a range of speaking experience including DevOpsDays, DevOps Enterprise Summit, Velocity Conference, QCon and the LeadDev conference.

Paula is part of the organising committee for Kubernetes Community Days UK and DevOps Days London, and also organises the London Platform User Group.