Summary

In this chapter, we looked at backlog prioritization and how it is different for platforms compared to linear products. We discussed some of the essential factors that product managers should know about the platform for effectively prioritizing their backlog. For example, what is the platform's core offering or the price that the platform users are paying for its usage? Understanding these details can help product managers to identify and prioritize capabilities of the platform that are beneficial for the entire platform's ecosystem.

We learned why metrics-driven prioritization is useful and how to utilize the metric results to identify features. We looked at some example features and capabilities to optimize each category of platform metrics: accumulation, connection, and interaction. We also explored a prioritization framework and understood how it could be applied using a few sample features.

We discussed some challenges that product managers face for platform...