Preventing “go-around” with Platform Thinking

Apply platform thinking to prevent teams from bypassing core systems

Consider this fairly common scenario. A team builds a system that is meant to be used by the entire company e.g. a video management platform (VMP). This system is supposed to take care of all needs like video storage, editing, bitrate optimizations, delivery/CDN, etc so that no one else has to deal with them. You just bring your video and all else is taken care of. As a result of this overarching goal, only one interface is exposed to the…