Your platform is not an off-the-shelf piece of software; it’s an evolving set of reusable services, integrated with your existing systems to create valuable outcomes for your business. The platform capabilities change in response to the needs of its users – your app developers – among whom it’s a recognizable internal brand. The VMware Tanzu Labs platform-as-product approach combines product management, user-centered design (UCD), agile, extreme programming (XP), and site reliability engineering (SRE) practices.