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Internal developer platform: golden path + templates
Platform engineering team • Technology • 6 weeks
Accelerated delivery by standardizing the golden path and reducing setup friction.
Snapshot
Services
- Delivery Enablement
Deliverables
- Golden path definition + success criteria
- Service scaffold template (structure + defaults)
- CI/CD templates + environment conventions
- Minimum observability baseline checklist
- Adoption plan + onboarding guide
Context
- Engagement: 6-week enablement build (golden path)
- Timeline: 6 weeks
- Client: Platform engineering team
- Industry: Technology
- Engineering organization scaling services and delivery throughput
- Inconsistent pipelines and setup steps created avoidable variance
- Needed a golden path that made the right way the easy way
Constraints
- Templates had to be adoptable incrementally across teams
- Quality gates needed to be minimal, fast, and non-disruptive
- Onboarding materials had to work for new hires without deep tribal knowledge
Challenge
Teams lost time on repetitive setup and inconsistent pipelines, slowing delivery and increasing reliability issues across services.
How we worked
- Defined the golden path end-to-end with explicit success criteria
- Published standard scaffolds and CI/CD templates to remove repetition
- Introduced minimum quality gates and dependency checks as defaults
- Created onboarding guidance and an adoption plan to drive uptake
What we did
- Defined a golden path for new service creation (scaffold, CI/CD, observability)
- Introduced standard templates for pipelines and environments
- Implemented minimum quality gates and dependency checks
- Created onboarding guidance and adoption plan for teams
Outcomes
- New service bootstrap time: ↓ from ~1–2 days to ~30–60 minutes
- Pipeline consistency: ↑ (standard templates adopted)
- Deployment friction: ↓ ~25% (fewer manual steps)
Proof
- Golden path definition (high-level) with success criteria
- CI/CD template approach and checklist (redaction-safe)
- Observability baseline checklist (minimum viable standards)
- Adoption and onboarding plan (outline)
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