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How do you define success as a Platform Product Manager?

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Platform Product Management
  1. Paresh Vakhariya
    Paresh Vakhariya

    Atlassian Director of Product Management (Confluence) | Formerly PayPal, eBay, Intel, Verizon • Jun 11

    A feature PM succeeds when users adopt and love a specific capability. A platform PM succeeds when other teams ship better products faster because of what you built.  Adoption and usage by internal consumers Are teams choosing to build on your platform, or working around it?  Time-to-ship for downstream teams Before/after benchmarks on how long it takes a product team to launch a capability your platform now handles.  Reduction in duplicated systems How many one-off implementations of the same c ...Read More

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  2. Deepak Mukunthu
    Deepak Mukunthu

    Salesforce Senior Director of Product, Agentforce AI Platform • 3y

    As a Product Manager, you are responsible for: 1. Defining product vision/strategy/roadmap based on deep understand of customers, business and competitive landscape 2. Working with various cross-functional stakeholders and partners to execute on your roadmap and ship product/features 3. Establishing processes to gather customer feedback to continuously evolve the product Platform Product Manager role is very different except the product is a platform and hence your customers are the ones using t ...Read More

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  3. Ashka Vakil
    Ashka Vakil

    strongDM Sr. Director, Product Management • 2y

    Platform PM is a specialized role that requires technical chops and soft skills to work with external and internal customers and stakeholders while being able to go deep in the weeds but also think about the big picture of what the platform can do. As a result, there are a lot of dimensions on which success can be measured. The two main dimensions for measuring success are adoption and technical excellence. Adoption - how is the platform being adopted, how many teams are utilizing the platform, ...Read More

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