How does a product manager on an infrastructure or platform team make an impact?

This will likely be a topic we keep revisiting, but I felt I should ship some initial thoughts right away.

To answer this question, we need to work backwards from this question: is there a benefit from a successful internal developer platform to begin with?

If it is, we should understanding what those benefits are.

Then ask, what are valuable skills needed to deliver it?

A way to answer the skills is to start to get into context and use-cases where a product manager versus the individual teams addresses it.

This should set the stage for the areas of impact and the skills necessary for success.

But if not, let me know in the Reviews on your podcast what you would like included or covered in an upcoming episode!

This is more of a thought piece for the impact of a platform product manager.

But what if the right person can impact a company's valuation?

I riff on an article that talks about the underlying mathematics of "exponential" growth companies -- the ones with high valuations.

I make the case that the right product manager could lead to accelerating growth in a way different from typical growth hacks and A/B testing.

Let me know what you think.

Here we talk about how to evaluate whether your company needs an Internal Development Platform Product Manager.

While there are different kinds of platform product managers, this focuses on a PM who works with your internal developers.