CL-505 Cloud & Platform

Platform as a Product at Scale

Run an internal platform the way a product is run, at the scale where adoption, funding and deprecation decide its fate rather than technology choice. Learners build an adoption strategy with lighthouse teams, model funding and chargeback that does not punish the paved road, set SLOs for the platform itself, and write a deprecation policy with migration tooling attached. The exit artefact is a platform product strategy defended against an executive challenge.

B5Advanced

6modules

42skill atoms

2role journeys

Curriculum

What this course covers.

6 modules, 42 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1Platform as a Product7 skill atoms

a product manager and roadmap for internal softwareuser research with engineering teams as customersproblem-led rather than technology-led roadmapthin slice shipped over a two-year platform buildpublishing the not-doing listalpha, beta and GA stages for internal capabilitiessuccess defined as adoption not delivery

2Adoption Strategy7 skill atoms

voluntary adoption vs mandate and their failure modeslighthouse teams and reference migrationsmigration cost carried by the platform teamadoption funnel from awareness to steady useincentives when the old path still worksinternal demos, office hours and changelogsdiagnosing an adoption plateau

3Funding and Chargeback7 skill atoms

central funding vs per-team chargebackplatform overhead rate published transparentlyshowback before chargeback to build trustfunding tied to outcomes rather than headcountbudget defence with unit cost and avoided costcross-charging that discourages the paved roadcost centre and capitalisation mechanics

4SLOs for the Platform7 skill atoms

SLIs for provisioning, pipeline and deploy pathscontrol plane availability vs workload availabilityon-call rota for the platform itselferror budget shared with consumer teamsinternal status page and incident commssupport tiers and response expectationstoil from manual platform interventions

5Versioning and Deprecation7 skill atoms

semantic versioning of platform APIs and modulesdeprecation policy with dates and migration guidesautomated migration tooling shipped with the changerunning two versions and what it costsforced upgrade windows and exception handlingbreaking change communication pathdependency graph used to size the impact

6Org Design and Anti-Patterns7 skill atoms

stream-aligned, enabling and platform team topologiesthe platform team as a ticket queuere-org into a platform team with no product changeone team owning too many capabilitiesembedded enablers vs a central gatekeeperstaffing the unglamorous maintenance worksunsetting the platform team's own failed bets

Where it fits

CL-505 in the role journeys.

This course appears in 2 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

Engineering Manager

Capstone stage

AI-511→CL-505→journey complete

Platform Engineer (IDP)

Capstone stage

CL-308→CL-505→journey complete

Roles this course serves

Engineering Manager Platform Engineer (IDP)

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B5.

Every course we run is written to one rung of the CASI ladder, so a plan can be assembled to take a team from where they are to where they need to be.

What do B1–B6 mean?The CASI Capability Ladder — click to expand

Every course targets a band on the CASI Capability Ladder — our six-band proficiency scale, anchored to open standards (O*NET, ESCO, NICE, NIST AI RMF, Bloom's). A band tells you how deep a course goes, and what evidence proves it.

What the learner can doTypical evidence

AwareUnderstands concepts and vocabulary; uses tools with guidance

Knowledge checks

FoundationPerforms standard tasks correctly in familiar contexts

Guided labs, autograded exercises

PractitionerDelivers complete pieces of work independently

Scenario labs, proctored hands-on exams

ProfessionalHandles production-grade complexity, trade-offs and failure modes

Break-fix drills, design defenses

AdvancedEngineers systems end-to-end under constraints; leads others

Rubric-scored capstones, vivas

ExpertSets direction; recognised authority across teams

Portfolio + panel evaluation

A note on B6. Courses in this catalog target B1–B5. B6 is not taught — it is recognised, through a portfolio and a panel, once someone is setting direction for others. Every journey here is built to land a learner at B5.

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Platform as a Product at Scale

What this course covers.

CL-505 in the role journeys.

Engineering Manager

Platform Engineer (IDP)

Roles this course serves

This course is authored to band B5.

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