Three levels of YOUR Platform

We can look at platforms at three levels.

Your personal platform is the know-how that you can personally reuse from task-to-task, project-to-project, and job-to-job. But, it is not real useful outside yourself.

A product platform may be what a team uses to efficiently build, maintain, and produce variants of a product.

A company platform is when you are able to reuse know-how, technology, tools, and processes on one product and leverage that on the next product, and when an improvement on one product improves another.

All three are valuable, but the higher up the stack you can go, the higher the value.