Resilience
Beyond DR plans: resilience engineering for modern enterprises
Why disaster recovery on paper is not the same as resilience in practice - and what to do about it.
Read article →The patterns in this article come from our work with large enterprises across regulated and fast-moving sectors. The aim is not to be exhaustive - it is to surface the handful of decisions we see making the biggest difference in practice.
1. Platforms are products
The most successful internal platforms are run as products: a roadmap, a backlog driven by user research, a public changelog, and explicit success metrics (adoption, lead time, change failure rate). Platforms run as central diktats tend to become shelfware.
2. Golden paths, not gilded cages
A well-designed platform makes the right thing the easy thing without making the unusual thing impossible. Teams should be able to opt out - but the cost of doing so should be visible to them.
3. Measure what matters
DORA metrics remain the most useful starting point: lead time for changes, deployment frequency, mean time to restore, change failure rate. Add a developer experience survey on top and you have a balanced scorecard most leadership teams will engage with.
4. Don’t underestimate the political work
Every enterprise platform initiative is part technology, part politics. Identifying executive sponsors, surfacing wins early and treating sceptics as users-to-win-over (not blockers-to-route-around) is half the job.
Where to start
If any of the above resonates with what you are working through, we are always happy to compare notes - without obligation. Email is the best way to reach us: customerservices@halfteck.com.