This session will introduce the concept of Platform Value Model (PVM). As organizations embark on their DevOps journey through building technical capability platforms - Delivery Infrastructure (DI) Platforms or internal development platforms (IDPs) - one of the biggest challenges is to follow a value based prioritization, figure out the priorities and articulate tangible value of building these platform capabilities to your stakeholders - leadership, product management, finance and most importantly your internal clients.

In this talk, we will be unveiling a model that can be used by organizations both small and large to figure out measurable return on investment for your technical platform products and capabilities. We will be using a real-life use case to demonstrate how to forecast the value of each of the capabilities. We will further demonstrate how to measure the actual value against the forecasted projections.

Specifically we will focus on:

1. The ability to model costs and value of your platform engineering investments over a timeline
2. Assess for optimistic and pessimistic scenarios
3. How to accommodate changes during execution
4. Ability to model realized vs projected value
5. Accommodate various success metrics including Flow metrics and DORA.

Takeaways:

At the end of the talk the audience should be able to:

1. Understand how this model is applicable to the entire platform capability decision making process
2. Steps to incorporate this model into their devops journey
3. How to extend and customize this model for seamless contextual integration