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Golden paths your teams can self-serve: environments, pipelines, observability and policy as code, behind an internal developer portal.

Typical timing
12–20 weeks
Engagement
Phased programme
Delivery framework
User researchDiscoveryAlphaBetaLive
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Objective

Turn infrastructure from a ticket queue into a product. An internal developer platform gives teams paved roads for creating services, environments and pipelines, with security and cost policy enforced automatically — so shipping on a Friday is safe and boring.

You may need this if

  • Developers wait days or weeks for infrastructure
  • Every team builds pipelines and Kubernetes set-up differently
  • Security and compliance checks happen late and manually
How it runs

Activities, step by step

The plan follows our delivery framework. Steps that do not apply to this kind of work are left out rather than padded.

  1. 01 · User research1–2 weeks

    Developer experience research

    • Interviews and surveys with development teams
    • Time lost to toil and waiting measured
    • Platform product vision agreed
  2. 02 · Discovery2–3 weeks

    Platform design

    • Golden paths chosen for the most common service types
    • Runtime, GitOps and policy-as-code design
    • Portal choice, such as Backstage
  3. 03 · Alpha4–6 weeks

    First golden path

    • Service template, pipeline and environment automation
    • Observability and security built into the template
    • Pilot team onboarded
  4. 04 · Beta4–6 weeks

    Expand and adopt

    • Further golden paths and self-service actions
    • Existing services migrated onto the platform
    • Adoption and DORA metrics tracked
  5. 05 · LiveOngoing

    Run as a product

    • Platform roadmap driven by developer feedback
    • Platform team coached to own it
    • Agent-ready interfaces for AI-assisted operations

Deliverables

What you keep at the end.

  • Internal developer portal and service catalogue
  • Golden-path templates with pipelines and observability
  • Policy as code for security and cost
  • Platform team operating model
  • Before-and-after delivery metrics

Outcomes

What it is built to change.

  • New services to production in hours
  • Consistent security and compliance by default
  • Engineers spending time on product, not plumbing

Often combined with

Every engagement starts with a 45-minute working session with the SME who would own the work. No deck.

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