December 2021 – Software Driven World

Platform lesson #2: Avoid the platform/product dichotomy

December 21, 2021 by Jan Bosch

The traditional view on platforms is one where the platform provides generic functionality used by multiple products in a portfolio and family. These products can then simply take the platform as a lego brick and build their product-specific functionality on top of it. Like software from external providers, you simply integrate the platform as a … Read more

Platform lesson #1: Platforms should focus on speed, not efficiency

December 16, 2021 by Jan Bosch

Traditional thinking is that platforms are about efficiency through reuse. Product teams get a bunch of functionality for free from the platform and only have to build the remaining product-specific functionality. The interesting thing about software reuse is that it’s been extremely successful at the inter-company level. The amount of software that’s being reused through … Read more