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Developer Platform Engineering for the Agentic-Coding Cohort
A developer platform engineering consolidation playbook for enterprise customers in 2026: inner-loop standardisation, agentic-coding integration without disruption, secret-management consolidation, observability integration, developer-experience metrics.
Platform engineering directors at enterprise customers carry 47 developer tools, three IDE configurations, two CI systems, four secret managers. The CTO has asked to consolidate around an agentic-coding agent. The course delivers the consolidation playbook.
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Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.
Why this course
Platform engineering directors at 5,000-engineer enterprise customers carry 47-to-90 internal developer tools. Three IDE configurations. Two CI systems. Four secret managers. The Director of Platform Engineering has been asked by the CTO to consolidate the developer experience around an agentic-coding agent without losing the existing investment. The default approach is to deploy the agentic-coding agent as a side-channel tool and let the developer adoption drive consolidation. The result is two parallel developer experiences and a director who has not delivered on the CTO's brief.
The course works through the consolidation playbook. The inner-loop standardisation framework. The agentic-coding integration without disruption. The secret-management consolidation. The observability integration. The developer-experience metrics framework. The customer-side identity-federation integration. The customer-side data-platform integration. The customer-side security-operations integration. The customer-side workforce integration. The customer-side governance integration. The CTO-readable reporting framework. Twelve modules with deliverables. Plus a hand-built playbook for your specific platform.
What you walk away with
- A documented inner-loop standardisation framework.
- An agentic-coding integration without disruption framework.
- A secret-management consolidation framework.
- An observability integration framework.
- A developer-experience metrics framework.
- A customer-side identity-federation integration.
- A customer-side data-platform integration.
- A customer-side security-operations integration.
- A customer-side workforce integration.
- A CTO-readable reporting framework.
- A 10-week build plan.
The 12 modules
Module 1. The 2026 enterprise platform engineering landscape
Walkthrough of the 2026 enterprise platform engineering landscape. The customer cohort with 47-to-90 internal developer tools. The customer cohort with three-to-five IDE configurations. The customer cohort with two-to-three CI systems. The customer cohort with four-to-six secret managers. The competitive landscape across platform engineering consulting practices. The strategic decisions a platform engineering director faces in 18-month consolidation programme planning.
Module 2. Inner-loop standardisation framework
Build the inner-loop standardisation framework. The IDE-configuration standardisation. The local-build standardisation. The local-test standardisation. The local-lint standardisation. The local-format standardisation. The integration with the customer's existing developer workflow cadence. The integration with the customer's existing engineering excellence cadence. Plus the worked example for the customer's first three inner-loop standardisations.
Module 3. Agentic-coding integration without disruption
Build the agentic-coding integration without disruption framework. The customer-side agentic-coding-agent selection framework. The customer-side agentic-coding-agent deployment pattern. The customer-side agentic-coding-agent governance framework. The customer-side agentic-coding-agent training framework. The integration with the customer's existing developer workflow. Plus the worked example for the customer's first three agentic-coding deployments.
Module 4. Secret-management consolidation framework
Build the secret-management consolidation framework. The HashiCorp Vault consolidation pattern. The AWS Secrets Manager consolidation pattern. The Azure Key Vault consolidation pattern. The GCP Secret Manager consolidation pattern. The customer-side identity-federation integration. The integration with the customer's existing security-operations cadence. Plus the worked example for the customer's first secret-management consolidation.
Module 5. Observability integration framework
Build the observability integration framework. The customer-side Datadog integration. The customer-side Splunk integration. The customer-side OpenTelemetry integration. The customer-side Prometheus integration. The customer-side Grafana integration. The customer-side log-and-metric routing framework. The integration with the customer's existing SRE operating model. Plus the worked example for the customer's typical observability stack.
Module 6. Developer-experience metrics framework
Build the developer-experience metrics framework. The DORA metrics. The SPACE metrics. The customer-side platform-adoption metrics. The customer-side platform-performance metrics. The customer-side platform-satisfaction metrics. The integration with the customer's existing engineering-excellence cadence. The integration with the customer's existing CTO reporting cadence. Plus the worked example for the customer's first integrated developer-experience metrics dashboard.
Module 7. Customer-side identity-federation integration
Build the customer-side identity-federation integration. The customer's existing IAM platform integration (Okta, Entra ID, Ping Identity). The SCIM provisioning pattern. The role-based-access pattern. The session-policy pattern. The customer-side audit-trail integration. The customer-side break-glass pattern. Plus the worked example for the customer's typical developer population.
Module 8. Customer-side data-platform integration
Build the customer-side data-platform integration. The customer's existing data-warehouse integration. The customer's existing data-lake integration. The customer's existing data-streaming-platform integration. The integration with the customer's existing data-governance framework. The integration with the customer's existing data-quality framework. Plus the worked example for the customer's typical data-platform footprint.
Module 9. Customer-side security-operations integration
Build the customer-side security-operations integration. The customer's existing SOC integration. The customer's existing SIEM integration. The customer's existing SOAR integration. The customer's existing vulnerability-management integration. The customer's existing threat-intelligence integration. The customer's existing incident-response-runbook integration. Plus the worked example for the customer's typical security-operations cadence.
Module 10. Customer-side workforce integration
Build the customer-side workforce integration. The platform-engineer role evolution. The developer-experience-engineer role evolution. The site-reliability-engineer role evolution. The customer-side training framework. The customer-side competency-assessment framework. The customer-side change-management framework. Plus the worked example for the customer's first 12 months of workforce integration.
Module 11. CTO-readable reporting framework
Build the CTO-readable reporting framework. The integrated platform-engineering dashboard. The integrated developer-experience dashboard. The integrated platform-cost dashboard. The integrated platform-adoption dashboard. The exception-reporting framework. The forward-look framework. The integration with the customer's existing CTO cadence. Plus the worked example for the CTO briefing pack.
Module 12. Your 10-week build plan
Week by week. Weeks 1-2: landscape and inner-loop standardisation framework. Weeks 3-4: agentic-coding integration and secret-management consolidation. Weeks 5-6: observability integration and developer-experience metrics. Weeks 7-8: identity federation, data-platform, security-operations integration. Weeks 9-10: workforce integration, CTO-readable reporting framework. Deliverable: a platform engineering consolidation playbook ready for the next 18-month programme.
How this addresses your situation
Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.
Inner loop chaos → Module 2.
Agentic coding integration → Module 3.
Secret management chaos → Module 4.
Observability chaos → Module 5.
DX metrics → Module 6.
IAM federation → Module 7.
Data platform → Module 8.
Security ops → Module 9.
Workforce → Module 10.
CTO reporting → Module 11.
What you get with this course
- The 12-module course delivered as text plus downloadable templates.
- Templates and worked examples for every module.
- A hand-built playbook generated for your specific platform.
- Three reference consolidation programmes from peer enterprise platform engineering teams.
- Scripted talking points for the customer CTO engagement.
What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1
Day 1: Inner-loop standardisation framework scaffold drafted.
Week 4: Agentic-coding integration and secret-management consolidation designed.
Week 8: Observability, DX metrics, IAM, data-platform operational.
Week 10: Consolidation playbook ready for next 18-month programme.
Before and after
Before
Agentic-coding deployed as side-channel. Two parallel developer experiences. Director has not delivered on CTO brief.
After
Consolidation playbook. Single integrated developer experience. CTO brief delivered.
What happens if you do not address this
Enterprise platform engineering programmes that do not consolidate compound technology debt and developer churn into 2027.
Who it is for
For platform engineering directors at enterprise customers, principal platform engineers carrying customer platform consolidation, senior platform engineers at peer customer organisations, and senior platform engineering leaders at platform-engineering consulting practices.
Who this is NOT for. Pure non-platform-engineering practitioners. Practitioners with no enterprise customer experience. Pure non-developer-facing roles.
How it arrives
Text-based course via LMS, plus downloadable templates and worked examples and the hand-built playbook.
Time investment. Roughly 18 hours of reading and 60 to 120 hours of build effort across the 10-week plan.
Why $199 is the right number
External platform engineering consolidation consultants charge from 200,000 to 1,500,000 USD for integrated programmes. 199 USD buys the focused playbook and the implementation document for your specific platform.
FAQ
Does this cover the Backstage developer portal?
Module 2 covers Backstage as a primary anchor.
What about Port?
Module 2 covers Port adjacency.
Does this cover Cortex?
Module 2 covers Cortex adjacency.
What is in the implementation playbook for me specifically?
Consolidation playbook tuned to your specific platform, agentic-coding integration matched to your customer's selected agent, CTO reporting pre-loaded with your customer's typical cadence.
30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.
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