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Effective Platform Product Management

By : Tabassum Memon
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Effective Platform Product Management

By: Tabassum Memon

Overview of this book

Scaling a platform is a lot different than scaling a product. This is why product managers developing or transitioning to a platform model are often facing completely new challenges – both technical and strategic. But if you want to build the next Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, or a completely new type of platform, then you need to adopt a platform-first approach to change how you invent, develop, and market solutions. This is where Effective Product Platform Management comes in. This book addresses product management as a critical pillar of platform development. It'll help you understand the difference between traditional and modern product management for platforms and even decide whether the platform business model is the way to go for you. As you progress, you’ll be able to build the right platform strategy, define the MVP, and focus on ongoing backlog prioritization for successful platforms. This book will also walk you through the practical steps and guidelines that can ease your organization’s transition from linear products to platforms. By the end of this platform product management book, you’ll have learned the essential aspects of product management for building successful and scalable platforms. You’ll also have a clear understanding of the next steps you need to take to perfect and execute your new platform strategy – and take on the world.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Building the Right Strategy for the Platform Business Model
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Section 2: Building the Platform
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Section 3: Measuring the Performance of the Platform

Case study

In this chapter, we will define the MVP and create the roadmap for our educational content sharing and learning platform, Escola. But before we proceed with the MVP and the roadmap, let's revise a few things from the previous chapter that will be useful for us here:

  • Escola business vision: Connect educators and students to make learning and the sharing of educational content unrestricted, extensible, scalable, and efficient.
  • Escola business strategy: Target uncharted producers and consumers by increasing the total user base.
  • Escola focus of platform strategy: Both sides (producers and consumers).

Now that we know the business vision and the strategy of our platform, we can start with the MVP and the platform roadmap. To define the MVP, we must start with mapping the user journey, identifying the capabilities, prioritizing those capabilities, and then slicing the MVP. So, let's first map the user journey for our platform.

Escola user journey...