Any Engineering Managers platform team here I have some ques

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Any Engineering Managers platform team here I have some questions regarding how you satisfy team needs and org needs

Schuyler Bishop · Answer

wave Director of PE here if that helps

Meggie Juton · Answer

wave <http Cycloid io|Cycloid io> here we offer a collaboration platform dedicated to DevOps and hybrid cloud adoption allowing you to optimize how DevOps and non DevOps use technologies and clouds while adopting best DevOps practices governance across projects and end to end observability

Karolina Junčytė · Answer

I believe this upcoming <https platformcon com talk what is a technical product manager and why do you need one|talk> at PlatformCon should interest you

Shashi Ravula · Answer

Sorry for the late reply I was wondering if there should be a different set of skills we should look at for platform engineering manager vs engineering manager The major differences I see that engineering manager takes care of product teams and platform eng manager takes care of platform teams Does Platform engineer manager need to have more core technical understanding than product engineering managers How does this impact a platform engineer < Schuyler Bishop> perhaps you have more insights

Schuyler Bishop · Answer

I think how you look to hire your EMs depends on the skills needed of the team Example I desire my cloud focused platform team to be comprised of both SWE and Cloud Engineers and ideally people that are both Do you plan work the way a SWE wants to see it with a roadmap that s loosely but well planned Or do you mostly have a backlog of tickets If you re ticket driven and that works for you that s fine but an EM with a SWE background will not be happy in that system vs a product driven backlog

Schuyler Bishop · Answer

I also think it depends on how you define the role of a manager I have mine with outcome delivery and quality responsibilities as well as mentoring growing the team Separating the product responsibilities to a TPM allows the EM to focus on the team s outcomes as a system

Shashi Ravula · Answer

Having the Vision for the platform team should be responsibility also of the engineering manager along with team Or the Enigneering manager should rely on the Senior Engineers to drive the vision If the EM doesnt have the background in systems cloud production engineeering dev ex etc wouldn t it be hard to for him her to take care of platform team or he she should just focus on outcome unblocking the team and raising their productivity Or this vision will be transferred to a TPM provided TPM is also very good background with cloud systems etc and platform enegineering