Articles by Alexandra Craciun
How to Make an Impact as a Platform Product ManagerHere are the key ideas that Alexandra covers: • Defining a clear product vision and strategy aligned with the company's goals is critical for a platform product manager. This helps identify opportunities to evolve the platform to support business needs. • Collaboration with internal teams is key to understand pain points, needs and be part of their workflow. Techniques like developer interviews, surveys and shadowing engineers can help. • Optimizing for developer productivity is important but complex. Frameworks like Product Decision Stack and DORA can help define and measure developer productivity with metrics like deployment frequency, lead time, and satisfaction surveys. • Communication skills are vital as platform managers have to communicate with engineers and senior leaders. Techniques like avoiding jargon, focusing on impact and rehearsing presentations can help. • Security needs to be viewed as a developer-friendly tool with simple processes and practices.