Mistakes to avoid during platform backlog prioritization
As we looked at some of the challenges that product managers face while prioritizing capabilities for platforms, they also make inevitable mistakes during this process. Most of it is the result or outcome of our approaches that we take for linear products. Because of the multifaceted and multilayered design and nature of platform business, we cannot apply the same methods and techniques for feature prioritization that we use for linear products. And while undertaking prioritization with this new way of thinking, there are some mistakes that we should be mindful about. Let's discuss these in detail:
- Building Uber for something: In the last few years, you have probably heard the phrase that company X is Uber for something. Following the initial success of Uber, entrepreneurs started believing that if we pick up any service and create a crowdsourced platform for that service, we will have the same success as Uber. The...
