IDP Delivery
6 – 12 months · Blueprint → Forge → Sustain
An Internal Developer Platform is not a Backstage instance. It is a set of golden paths, self-service workflows, and feedback loops that reduce cognitive load at scale. We build the platform and prove it worked.
This engagement is right for you if:
Developers spend more than 20% of their time on environment setup or waiting for platform tickets
There is no single place to discover services, APIs, or runbooks
Onboarding a new engineer takes more than two weeks to first deployment
Leadership is asking whether the platform team is delivering developer productivity
How the engagement runs
Three Foundations Framework phases. Each closes with exit artifacts before the next begins.
Blueprint
Cognitive load baseline survey. IDP architecture ADR. Golden path catalogue definition. Backstage plugin inventory.
Forge
Backstage deployment and configuration. Golden path templates built and tested. Self-service scaffolding workflows live.
Sustain
Portal in production. SPACE metrics dashboard. Adoption tracking. Quarterly DX pulse survey.
Exit artifacts
- Backstage-based IDP deployed to production
- Golden path templates for your top 3 workload types
- Self-service scaffolding for environment provisioning
- Developer cognitive-load baseline (pre/post)
- SPACE metrics dashboard with quarterly cadence
- Adoption report: active users, ticket deflection rate
Ready when you are
Ready to ship the platform your developers actually use?
Book a 30-minute call to scope the engagement and confirm whether this is the right starting point for your team.