Product Thinking Episode 189: Prioritizing Platform Products with Vijay Pitchumani of Okta
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Sep 18, 2024 
Vijay Pitchumani, Director of Product at Okta and a leading voice in product strategy, shares invaluable insights on product management for platform teams. He discusses the importance of defining actionable success metrics to guide engineering teams. Vijay also highlights the role of experimentation, advocating for API-first approaches to gather user feedback early on. They explore the complexities of aligning product roadmaps with business goals and emphasize the need for a curious mindset to innovate while ensuring security in identity platforms.
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End-to-End Platform Roadmapping
- Prioritize platform roadmaps by considering end-to-end scenarios and aligning with product teams.
- This ensures platform capabilities effectively serve the intended products and overall business outcomes.
Shared Incentives for Platform and Product Teams
- Platform teams and product teams must share incentives and priorities for successful alignment.
- Misalignment often arises from differing incentives, so matching them ensures everyone works towards common goals.
Crafting a Long-Term Platform Vision
- Craft platform visions by anticipating long-term use cases and non-functional requirements, like scale.
- Unlike product visions, platform visions must consider scalability and future needs from the outset.