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“Want teams to commit to your platform? Stop forcing them to use it. 🚀”

When a platform is optional, teams:
✅ Adopt it because it solves real problems
✅ Engage proactively instead of resisting change
✅ Provide better feedback, driving real improvement

A mandated platform leads to shallow compliance—not deep commitment.

📖 Read more: damsdri.me/posts/vrijblijvendh

💡 What’s a platform you actually enjoyed using—and why?

Dries Dams · The optional platformWhy Internal Developer Platforms Should Never Be Mandatory I’ve had many conversations about Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and the broader concept of Platform as a Product. One topic that comes up more often than I’d like is the idea that a platform should be mandatory for developers. Management, in particular, often struggles with the concept of an optional platform. In their view, it’s the responsibility of the platform team to build the system, and the job of leadership to enforce its use. Because using the platform reduces cost
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