What is a Platform Product?
🌿Notes on researching the related but not identical terms floating around in the industry.
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I’m trying out extending my website with a digital garden, which feels more aligned to my increasing preference for horizontal organic growth rather than tree-centric metaphors.
The name is a play off “lossy” mental models, which I am sure to reflect in my thoughts here.
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Why I will ask you to use PM instead of PO for Product roles
🌿TL;DR: The distinction between Product Manager (PM) and Product Owner (PO) has long been a source of …
Persona Research Guide
🌿Persona Guide for Product Research The following is an example of a persona research guide I would …
Product Operating Model Primer for Engineering Managers
🌿Product Operating Model Primer for Engineering Managers How to lead teams that build toward …
Exploring My Career as a Product Journey
🌿My Career as a Product Journey: From Advocate to Platform Leader I hadn’t thought about the …
Platform Products: Map of Content
🫚Platform Products - Map of Content “A digital platform is a foundation of self-service APIs, …
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Resume Tips – Add Your Why
Resumes can be boring to read and it comes down to the classic storytelling elements.
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Who does what by how much – An OKR is simply this
That’s what an outcome is according to the podcast. https://overcast.fm/+AApexsq11Hs
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Running Product Pre-mortems
Running Product Pre-mortems Pre-mortems sit in the sweet spot between early product planning and go-to-market execution—after you have enough product …
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Go-To-Market Product Strategy
These are thoughts that turned to stickies that turned into my default playbook.
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Leonardo.ai is a Masters in Prompt Engineering
I wanted to generate a picture for a blog post, so I threw in a prompt:
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Not everything is a product in Team Topologies
“A fundamental misconception in product transformation is that everything must become a product.
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Product Management – Signs of Healthy Engineering Relationships
Product Management requires an effective partnership with Engineering. In my leadership experience, when an organization is still transitioning from …
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When data is wrong trust the anecdotes
“When the data and the anecdotes disagree,” he said in an interview, “the anecdotes are usually right.
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Cognitive and Relational Proximity
Proximity Distance or closeness, whether physical or mental, is described as “proximity” by social scientists.
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Testing OG and Twitter Cards Locally
When building a site with Open Graph and Twitter Card meta tags, you can verify they’re rendering correctly before publishing using curl and …
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What is a Platform Product?
Notes on researching the related but not identical terms floating around in the industry.
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My root claude.md file
Who You Are You are a thoughtful partner-in-crime with expertise in a wide range of topics.
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AI Coding Agent Product Perspective
AI Coding Agents: A Product Perspective Last updated: 2025-12-11 My perspective on this is changing rapidly.
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Exploring My Career as a Product Journey
My Career as a Product Journey: From Advocate to Platform Leader I hadn’t thought about the story I tell myself about my career in a while, and …
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Product Operating Model Primer for Engineering Managers
Product Operating Model Primer for Engineering Managers How to lead teams that build toward outcomes, not output.
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Persona Research Guide
Persona Guide for Product Research The following is an example of a persona research guide I would publish for my team to keep us aligned on how to …
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Why I will ask you to use PM instead of PO for Product roles
TL;DR: The distinction between Product Manager (PM) and Product Owner (PO) has long been a source of confusion—and for good reason.
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A Definition of Platform Product Management
From Marty Cagan’s work on platform product management: “A platform is a set of capabilities that are exposed through APIs or other …
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Community practices I learned from Cathedral and the Bazaar
Community as Co-Developers: Lessons from The Cathedral and the Bazaar Eric S.
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Platform Product Extension Model Language
Every platform needs a way for others to extend its capabilities to get out of the firefight of feature requests and dissatisfied users using …
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Conway's Law as Organizational Design Principle
Conway’s Law as Organizational Design Principle “Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of …
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Four Team Types for Modern Software Development
Four Team Types for Modern Software Development I enjoy the insights learned within enabling constraints.
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Platforms as Internal Products
Platforms as Internal Products “A digital platform is a foundation of self-service APIs, tools, services, knowledge and support which are …
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Team Boundaries as System Architecture
Team Boundaries as System Architecture “Every part of the software system needs to be owned by exactly one team.
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Three Patterns for Team Interaction in Team Topologies
Three Patterns for Team Interaction in Team Topologies I’m still learning how to use these patterns effectively, but I know there’s …
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Understanding Cognitive Load in Team Design
Understanding Cognitive Load in Team Design “Do you feel like you’re effective and able to respond in a timely fashion to the work you are …
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Product Management - Good Rules for Naming a Product
Good Rules for Product Naming Product naming seems simple until you try to name something that doesn’t confuse customers, developers, or …
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Team Topologies Updated Its Concept of Platforms
Team Topologies Updated Its Concept of Platforms Matthew Skelton recently updated a crucial concept from Team Topologies that changes how platforms …
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Kanban columns for lean publishing model
Kanban Columns for Lean Publishing Model What we used to keep Opensource.
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Career Tip – Conference Attendance Tips
Thinking about this since a friend asked and I’m surprised I don’t have a write up…
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Platform Products: Map of Content
Platform Products - Map of Content “A digital platform is a foundation of self-service APIs, tools, services, knowledge and support which are …
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Team Topologies: Map of Content
Team Topologies Map of Content Team Topologies provides one of the clearest mental models I’ve found for organizing software teams and the …