Published: 02 May 2024
This Consult the Board survey summary features inputs from 13 Gartner Research Board for Global CIOs members regarding their approach to platform engineering. It describes various aspects of members’ platform engineering journeys, including their level of experience, types of platforms leveraged, application of engineering practices, and challenges encountered.
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A plurality of respondents (5 of 13) have embraced platform engineering and are at the experienced level, wherein, they are using it throughout the relevant parts of the enterprise and have a maturity level between medium to high.
Almost all respondents (12 of 13) have dedicated platform teams responsible for creating and managing specific platforms.
Slightly more than half of the respondents (7 of 13) engage business stakeholders through regular update meetings and strategy sessions in adopting platform engineering models.
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