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When a platform engineering project runs into inevitable challenges, finding useful advice and tips to help solve the problems and get things back on track can make a huge difference to the success of your platform engineering efforts.

In my latest story for The New Stack I speak with two industry platform engineering leaders who share their advice on how to deal with five of the most common pitfalls that they say can arise when companies bring in a platform engineering strategy and implementation.

Among their suggestions are emphasizing organic platform engineering adoption by the members of a company's developer teams and suggesting clear communication over forced compliance when bringing in PE for your developers.

Read more about their helpful advice on these issues in my story below for The New Stack. Thanks for reading. 🙂

Five Ways Your Platform Engineering Journey Can Derail Industry experts outline potential traps and practical solutions in implementing platform engineering, emphasizing organic adoption and clear communication over forced compliance.

A Brazilian credit union, Sicredi, has made the transition from old established development systems to a platform engineering approach that is transforming its operations for its employees and customers.

Sicredi moved to platform engineering so it could meet the demands from customers for new fintech features that customers wanted to use. By upping its software development game big time, Sicredi met the demand and is driving innovations for its customers and employees.

Read all about it in my latest story for The New Stack.

Sicredi: From Manual Banking to Platform Engineering Demand for new fintech features from customers of the Brazilian credit union meant that Sicredi had to up its software development game big time.

Companies looking to incorporate platform engineering into their software development processes would do well to present these internal developer platforms as products to their dev teams and IT administrators.

The reason? Because approaching platform engineering projects as products that will be supported, updated, and well adopted is a critical part of making sure they will be a success inside companies.

That's the advice from Daniel Bryant of Syntasso, who spoke with me for my latest platform engineering story I wrote for The New Stack. Check it out here and let me know what you think about his advice.

Build Platform Engineering as a Product for Dev Adoption Adopting a platform engineering strategy is only the start of the process. Turning it into a valuable product that your developers will adopt and support is a critical part of the journey.