Audience & Requirements

• Bring your real-world context: your teams, your tools, your blockers
• You should have access to, or knowledge of, your team’s software delivery process including CI/CD, service onboarding, and developer feedback loops
• A working understanding of cloud, containers, and modern delivery practices is helpful—but not essential
• Bring a laptop and access to a whiteboard or Miro-type board; you’ll build real artefacts live
• Most importantly: come prepared to listen, map, and experiment—not just consume slides

Bootcamp Overview

This bootcamp gives you a practical, end-to-end understanding of modern platform engineering and Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). You will begin by exploring the fundamentals of platform ecosystems—user needs, value streams, feedback loops, and organisational constraints—and then progress to advanced topics such as platform pattern languages, DSRP systems thinking, flow optimisation, and designing safe, incremental change.

Through hands-on mapping sessions, you will build real artefacts such as Wardley Maps, OODA loops, 3-axis value-flow maps, and future-state capability designs. You will gain practical experience analysing your own organisation’s delivery landscape, identifying friction points, and shaping platform improvements that developers will actually adopt.

By the end of the bootcamp, you will have a clear understanding of how to design, evolve, and communicate a platform as a product. You will be able to articulate user needs, reduce cognitive load, shape feedback loops, and create a value-aligned roadmap that balances autonomy, governance, and reliability.

You will be well-prepared to contribute to—or lead—platform engineering initiatives in cloud-based or regulated enterprise environments, and to engage confidently in discussions about platform strategy, developer experience, and internal platform architecture.

Agenda Day 1

• Understand your platform ecosystem: map users, value chains, capabilities, and dependencies using tools like User Needs Mapping and Wardley Maps.
  
• Analyse flow and feedback loops, identify friction points, and build your first OODA Loop Canvas.
  
• Learn platform-as-product principles, map developer journeys, and understand practical developer experience.
  
• Explore IDP design patterns: Golden Paths, self-service, guardrails, abstractions, and observability.
  
• Understand organisational forces, Conway’s Law, team–architecture alignment, and common failure modes.
  
• Synthesis session: build User Needs Maps, flow heat maps, and identify a small, immediate experiment.
  

Agenda Day 2

• Apply DSRP systems thinking to refine your maps and reveal hidden dependencies.
  
• Build a 3-axis flow map combining user needs, value streams, and systems perspectives.
  
• Design your future platform state through small, high-impact capability increments and safe-to-fail experiments.
• Build an impact-based roadmap focusing on value, risk, sequencing, and communication.
  
• Develop adoption and influence strategies: behaviour change, internal messaging, and developer engagement.
  
• Explore platform futures—AI, automation loops, resilience patterns—and complete your final synthesis.