I know I'm totally new here, but I've been thinking a lot about product guilds / learning community's and I'm really optimistic that the niche area of PM in PlatEng could be a great place to start one (e.g. here!) I'm wondering to start if anyone would be interested in a small group esque book club? I'm looking for motivation to get through this awesome book: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/platform-engineering/9781098153632/ Idea would be: • Meet every 2 weeks on a zoom call • Read 2 chapters every 2 weeks (total of 7 weeks) • I can facilitate the call so we can focus on sharing our experiences and how it resonates with the current chapters • We can try to find a way to include people async as well but goal would be the 2 week synchronous comms

OMG I need this, I got the book but not reading it at the moment [plus I've just become a Platform PM so I really should 😄]

I'd be down to do a book club

Alright getting back to this a day later, looks like we may have a meeting of 3 - I can probably bring a few folks from my side and maybe put it out on LinkedIn What timezones are yall in?

Nice! I'm UK based 😊

US Eastern

Hi I would be down to book club too, I actually started a substack newsletter as Technical product manager for Platforms and Reading the book called https://share.google/hGElOda4L35bM2HjX

@Mina sounds like we've got a small group!

Yea, let's do it!

Unfortunately 10 PM EST on Tuesday is when I have my meetings with senior stakeholders

I can probably flex some stuff around, lemme see what I can do

FYI I still haven’t given up on this. Posting on LinkedIn for a few more attendees. Feel free to share with your networks. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mina-tawadrous_platform-engineering-activity-7379905172870709248-ilMh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAMAtZgBDkDpYwEwP38iojK_RbuO6Dalm5w

I have read this book completely. From the Tech Product Management perspective quite valuable. If you ask me, I suggest another book which can complement more deep knowledge, from the perspective of Tech Product Management: Platform engineering for Architects. M. Körbacher et al. 2024

Event now up with a link. Feel free to mark yourself as attending if you're in 🙂 https://www.linkedin.com/events/readingbookswithplatformpeople7381336091838042112/

Yeah good recommendation @Tural Nabizade I’ve put it on my wish list!