It can seem confusing, but the simple idea is that Platform Engineering is Product Management
It can seem like it's a lot more confusing than that. And, sure, there's plenty of things that you can put in platform engineering, but it's mostly just adding in product management to your existing DevOps/SRE/platform/ops stack. This is a "just" that leads to big, helpful changes, but you can start with platform engineering and with what you have and just add in product management to get started. Hear @thecote 's quick take. Here's the details on what product management is: https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/white-papers/vmware-tanzu-labs-product-manager-playbook?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=PlatEngIsProdMgmt&utm_medium=video And here's the free, developer toil survey you can start with: https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/white-papers/developer-toil-the-hidden-tech-debt?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=PlatEngIsProdMgmt&utm_medium=video And to dive real deep, check out this free booklet on platform engineering from @TheNewStack : https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/ebooks/platformengineering-whatyouneedtoknownow?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=PlatEngIsProdMgmt&utm_medium=video
