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Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How of Product Development
I recently had an interesting discussion with some colleagues at a networking event about the differences in the roles and responsibilities of the product management function across organizations. In many organizations, the product team is seen as a jack of all trades and fills gaps between other teams within the organization. In a startup, this is usually acceptable and expected; however, as an organization scales, it is best to clearly delineate product-building functions.
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The Parent Product Life Cycle
A while back, I was chatting with a colleague who had just had their first baby. At the same time, my oldest was a couple of weeks away from high school graduation and about to leave for college. We started riffing on how parenting aligns with the Product Life Cycle (PLC). The job is the same; however, the needs, support, and management of a child differ as they grow older, similar to a product. Here’s an attempt to compare the similarities throughout the PLC stages.
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Building a Governance Framework
In a previous post, I outlined a high-level plan for onboarding as a new API Product Manager responsible for an organization’s API governance. We focused on meeting different stakeholders and gathering the information needed from each team. As you have begun compiling that data, we’ll make it actionable in this post.
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Managing Remote Teams
It’s a fact of life today — especially in tech — that we’ll be working in a globally distributed workforce. However as teams and companies made the transition from in-office to remote and back or to a hybrid situation, we’ve continued to hold on to our old habits from when we all worked in the office.
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API Futures | API Product Manager Onboarding Guide
Congratulations on your new role as an API Product Manager! It’s an exciting opportunity to shape an organization’s API strategy and governance. Once the dopamine of the LinkedIn likes and congratulations reactions wear off, it’s time to dive into the essentials of your role. Here’s a framework to help you thoughtfully onboard and make an impact.
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API Futures | Building the Platform Engineering MVP
This is the thrid post in my Platform Engineering Paves the Path for API Management and Governance series. In the first post, I provided a high-level overview of Platform Engineering and how it can help API governance. In my second post, I shared a Platform Engineering Maturity Model. This post focuses on how a Platform Product Manager can get started building a Platform within an organization.
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API Futures | Platform Engineering Maturity Model
This is the second post in my Platform Engineering Paves the Path for API Management and Governance series. In the first post, I provided a high-level overview of Platform Engineering and how it can help API governance. In this post, we’ll dive into a Platform Engineering Maturity Model.
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API Futures | Platform Engineering Paves the Path for API Management and Governance
When brainstorming topics for the APIFutures initiative, one theme that stood out was Platform Engineering and its benefits to an organization. I kept reading and listening to podcasts on how Platform Engineering and DORA metrics streamline software development and delivery. As I took notes and learned more about this topic, I decided to roll this into the API Futures project and start a series on how Platform Engineering streamlines API management and governance. This first post introduces the problems a Platform Engineering team can solve and provides a sneak peek of the series. Hope you enjoy this post and return for the rest of the series. I look forward to feedback to keep the discussion going.
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