Stop Renaming Teams, Start Product Thinking: A PM's Guide to Platform-as-a-Product
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Dominik Schmidle
Giant Swarm
Group Product Manager
DevOps helped teams move faster by pushing delivery closer to the engineers who build software. Once delivery has to scale across multiple teams, technologies, regions and regulatory constraints, it becomes harder to manage consistently. In this talk, I’ll show how we are reframing Continuous Delivery as a platform problem rather than a team-by-team challenge — moving from DevOps to Scaled DevOps. The shift is not from decentralization to centralization, but from team-owned pipeline implementations - even when based on shared templates - to a shared delivery foundation: Standardized by default, extensible where needed and easier to evolve across many teams. This is not a tooling talk. It is a strategy talk about scalable delivery: Reducing variation and cognitive load, embedding guard rails & policy checks enabling more reliable rollouts across complex systems and dependencies.
World Congress 2026 Europe
Dominik Schmidle
Giant Swarm
Group Product Manager
Patrick Koss
STACKIT
Tech Lead
Simone Desantis
Openapi SPA
CTO
Daniel Oh
IBM
Senior Principal Developer Advocate