We fired our platform team


The Platform Fix | Issue #009 Hello Reader— “We’re shutting down the platform team.” The Slack channel went silent. 15 engineers. £4.2M annual budget. Gone. But here’s the twist: It was their idea. Six months later, deployment frequency increased 400%. Developer satisfaction hit 9.2/10. Platform costs dropped £3M annually. The platform team didn’t get fired. They got promoted to “Product Engineering” and became the most valuable team in the company. Here’s how they did it - and why your...