https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/public/ recent bookmarks from earth2marsh 2026-06-19T21:38:18+00:00 https://www.vmware.com/docs/platform-as-a-product-wp earth2marsh platforms products whitepaper https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:15dcf6b90508/ 2025-12-16T23:57:36+00:00 https://netapinotes.com/api-product-strategy-more-than-just-a-feature-roadmap/ earth2marshListen, I get it: 9 out of every 10 API improvement efforts are launched in the belly of a company's engineering organization. The framing used to describe these efforts, and the APIs they produce, are natural extensions of the disciplines from which they are derived. However, shifting an organization from "API as a feature set" to "API as a strategic business driver" requires process AND language change. API product owners and change leaders must be intentional about: Framing APIs in terms of business value, not just technical capability. Shaping API roadmaps to align with business initiatives, not punch lists of programmatic geegaws. Embedding API ownership, measurement, and accountability across teams. Those things are easier said than done. But they are the difference between scattershot, unaligned efforts that are eventually abandoned when the next tech trend comes along, and ongoing API investment that drives the business forward.]]> apis products strategy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:61258b204689/ 2024-09-04T21:32:14+00:00 https://tante.cc/2024/09/03/why-ai-projects-fail/ earth2marshwe’ve been doing this for decades now, with every new technology we spend a lot of money to get a lot of bloody noses for way too little outcome. Because we keep not looking at actual, real problems in front of us – that the people affected by them probably can tell you at least a significant part of the solution to. No we want a magic tool to make the problem disappear. Which is a significantly different thing than solving it.]]> ai technology products programming https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:3004b84540ed/ 2024-08-27T23:52:03+00:00 https://archive.ph/2024.08.27-234709/https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danklyn_cows-that-agriculture-wont-allow-john-activity-7120862030776991745-zWPt earth2marshNote card drawn by Jeff Patton of a cow with dashed lines to indicate the domains of the different software teams: the flank steak team, the sirloin team, the rump roast team.. His point was that somehow these teams are expected to produce whole cows. The notecard is signed by JP, who drew it for me over breakfast in Salt Lake City a few years ago later: "We all work on the flank steak team, and want to build Bessie. What the market seems to want from us is livestock."]]> drawing products productmanagement cows https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:f86cfef0c693/ 2024-08-27T22:55:58+00:00 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danklyn_ugcPost-7234212266022203392-Vpr6/ earth2marsh the ladder of extraction (from last week) hits especially hard when paired with Mr. Patton's notecard drawing. We all work on the flank steak team, and want to build Bessie. What the market seems to want from us is livestock..]]> systems complexity slides products productmanagement https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:903c613fee06/ 2024-04-04T22:24:34+00:00 https://tomgeraghty.co.uk/index.php/platform-as-a-product/ earth2marshIt has users / customers, who are the key stakeholders in how the product should deliver value. It’s long-lived. It evolves over time in response to the needs and desires of the customers. It’s “owned” by a person or team. It only does what it needs to do. It as important to remove unused or under-used features as much as it is to evolve new features and functions. It has a name.]]> platformengineering products productmanagement https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:081967877a2e/ 2024-01-10T04:09:43+00:00 https://netapinotes.substack.com/p/is-api-product-management-a-role earth2marshWhich is easier? Teaching an engineer product management? Or educating a product manager about technical concerns?  Hopefully, I've established that APIs that are treated only as a "technical" concern create risk. At a minimum, they exhibit weak product characteristics that will age poorly over time. Someone involved with API creation needs to perform the API product management role. But this discussion raises an interesting question: is it easier to train someone on the software developer team to execute the API product management role? Or does it make more sense to educate a software product manager on the technical aspects related to APIs?  The answer is contextual for your organization. A vast degree of how that question is answered depends on the available talent. Some engineers naturally gravitate towards product-centric thinking, while certain product managers might have a knack for technical details.]]> apis products https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:216259834926/ 2023-04-28T18:25:57+00:00 https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/Why-AWS-Might-Be-the-Next-Backbone-Provider/?ck_subscriber_id=512832446 earth2marshIt would be grand if AWS could create higher-up-the-stack products that deliver business value. The problem is that Amazon has spent nearly three decades being very, very bad at designing anything that even remotely looks like an appealing user interface. The front page of the retail web store isn’t a good site, it’s just that we as customers have grown used to navigating its non-ergonomic design. (Credit where it’s due: Amazon nailed the user interface for Kindle Oasis. Push the button, the page turns, and it gets out of your way.) Similarly, a building’s plumbing doesn’t have to be visually appealing or user-approachable, it just has to work. But higher-order offerings that unlock greater business value — and their corresponding margins for vendors — absolutely need to get the customer experience correct. This is something that Microsoft understands in a way that AWS does not. Unless Amazon changes its trajectory, the future I see is that AWS goes the way of the Tier 1 backbone providers — effectively, a series of underlying infrastructure that powers the things that deliver customer value. Folks who build on AWS now will either pivot to platforms that generate bigger business value or find themselves working in the province of plumbers]]> aws ec2 business value products https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:ff71ac5e7164/ 2023-02-09T00:49:47+00:00 https://www.glean.com/ earth2marsh startups enterprise search knowledge products https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:241756c528c5/ 2022-12-01T01:45:35+00:00 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/two-breeds-api-products-solutions-amancio-bouza-phd/ earth2marsh apis products https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:aa3351416bdb/ 2022-09-07T21:55:52+00:00 https://www.june.so/great-product/tango earth2marshTango is a browser extension that generates beautiful step-by-step guides while you work. Like really beautiful. The product was launched last year and rapidly spread over the internet. According to the Chrome store the extension has more than 100k users now. For some reason the product reminds me of Clockwise. A Chrome extension dead simple to understand or use. And highly valuable from the first usage. To give some context, I’d say two recent trends speed up the path to success of Tango. 1. Remote: Tango was born during the emerge of remote which makes sense. It lets teams document things async and share. 2. Product-Led: Tango is the definition of “show, don”t tell”. 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