In the Platform Roadmap Workshop, you’ll spend one week defining what your Internal Developer Platform needs to address, for whom, and in what order you’ll build it. Two consultants from SUE will guide your platform team, developers, and management. You’ll walk away with the Platform Vision and roadmap—a plan that’s all yours.
A platform that starts with tooling becomes a collection of tools that developers work around. That’s why the workshop begins by asking what tasks are currently holding your developers back.
Gartner expects that by 2026, 80% of large software engineering organizations will have a platform team. In 2022, that figure was 45%. So the team is often already in place. What’s missing is a shared answer to the question of what the platform should deliver first.
Since 1997, SUE has been building infrastructure and platforms for organizations that rely on their software. We bring that experience to the table: which “golden paths” developers actually use, where adoption stalls, and what you’re better off not building yourself.
A platform involves developers, operations, security, architects, and budget managers. Each has a different view of what “the platform” is. Without a shared vision, the platform team builds for the stakeholder who shouts the loudest.
In the workshop, we’ll highlight those differences and make decisions together. You’ll walk away with a single vision and a roadmap that management can budget against and in which developers recognize their own pain points.
The workshop lasts one week and consists of three steps. We tailor the content to your organization: an ISV with a single product has different priorities than an organization with dozens of internal applications. If you don’t want to build everything yourself, we’ll include Multistax as an option—the platform that SUE delivers and manages out of the box.
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We speak with developers, operations teams, and stakeholders to identify where software delivery is currently being slowed down. This helps us determine the target audience, the objective, and the metrics used to evaluate the platform.
02
We identify which capabilities offer the greatest value, such as self-service environments, CI/CD templates, or observability. We weigh the impact against the effort required and map out the initiatives on a timeline with milestones.
03
You test the roadmap against realistic scenarios—for example, a new developer deploying their first service to production. Anything that doesn't work in that exercise, we'll fix before the week is over.
The workshop mainly requires time from the people who will eventually use and pay for the platform. Read-only access to your current tools is sufficient; SUE won’t change anything.
1 week from the initial meeting to the roadmap presentation
Two consultants from SUE will guide your team
2 hours per developer, for an interview and the validation session
Three to five developers from different teams, each spending two hours on an interview and the validation session
Someone from the platform or operations team and someone from security
The budget manager (CTO or IT manager) at the start and during the presentation
An overview of the current pipelines, clusters, and tooling. Read-only access is sufficient
At the end of the week, we’ll present the Platform Vision and roadmap to your team and the budget manager. The plan is yours: you’ll carry it out with your own platform team, together with SUE or another partner.
Are you still unsure whether an Internal Developer Platform is worth it? You can find out in the platform engineering guide. To learn how SUE sets up such a platform, visit the Platform Engineering page.
Platform vision statement: purpose, target audience, and the results by which the platform is evaluated
Challenges Faced by Your Developers, Based on the Interviews
Initiatives, weighted by impact and effort
A timeline with quarterly milestones
Measurable goals with a baseline measurement, such as the lead time from commit to production
SUE is a Dutch cloud native solutions partner that modernizes mission-critical applications, reduces cloud costs, and manages your platform. Specialists in Linux, Kubernetes, and the cloud.
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