I just came across this article interviewing Manuel Pais, and it's a great read: https://thenewstack.io/how-team-topologies-supports-platform-engineering/

We are actively doing a bookclub on team topologies at my job.

Awesome!

Yeah, we've only read part 1 so far, but another book that we take a lot of learnings from is the devops handbook. My team hosts a book club on that about every other year so that everyone new to our development teams understand the way we work.

Sounds like a great idea!

I haven't been very frequent here due to busy period, so late to the thread. I am more than happy to help anyone here who is interested in the Team Topologies approach and make further connections and recommendations. Our team is busy evolving the approach and there is a lot more nowadays than what you would find in the book. The website is a good start too as we aim to make it easier for people to get into the approach of Team Topologies by sharing the key concepts, practices and tools for adoption as well as examples of how organizations apply it. Those are quite good case studies as we aim to share the real diagrams for people to understand the design an organization is using.

Hello everyone! I'm interested in learning what agile methodologies have worked well for platform engineering teams? I understand this can be dependent on the maturity or stage a company is at in terms of adopting a PE team or even DevOps in general. I'm looking for insight on how either have played out over time for your PE teams. Today we are using scrumban for example. We are not big enough or can convince leadership to give us a product manager so all of the scrum duties fall on the EM. We work in this methodology mostly because the rest of the engineering org works in scrum and we're sort of asked to align to that for reporting progress and metrics 🫤 As most of you know, platform teams and our space doesn't fit nicely with how product teams work and operate. Yet, part of our goal is to ensure we are effectively demonstrating and communicating value back to the business so we wan to be able to do this in a way that requires very little overhead. Are there other agile methods that have worked well for your platform teams and still align with the rest of the org?