Maintaining Invisible Roads: Making the Case to Invest in Your Platform

Platform teams build the “invisible” features that often power the features that the end-users see and experience. But how do you get buy-in to invest in infrastructure that cannot be “seen” or “experienced” by the end-user? Many non-technical leaders assume that if it’s not broken, it doesn’t need maintenance or upgrading – and voila, tech debt is born! It doesn’t have to be this way. In this talk, Jan Chong, VP of Engineering at Tally, will share her insights and best practices on how engineering leaders can best position their platform team’s work within an organization and think through their relationships with their product and design peers.