Title:
Behold: The new developer portal, in all it’s glory!
Abstract
Believing that demo’ing an internal developer portal at an ‘All Hands’ will drive adoption, is a mistaken belief that has tripped up many platform teams over the years—myself included!
“Behold: the new developer portal, in all it’s glory!”
But, that demo is never enough. Developer portals, as with any platform capability, must be managed “as a product”. But what does that even mean? Drawing on stories from five years of platform engineering teams, and commercial platform product management, in this talk Lou will cover:
- Why doing an “all hands” demo of your internal portal early on is a mistake.
- Why surveying is not nearly enough to understand your developers.
- Why adding more features, or plug-ins to your portal could actually hurt adoption.
- How to hack into your developers existing behaviours to drive adoption.