My new role and a heartfelt thank you!
Hey, readers! It’s been a while since I shared any Platform Product Management content but it’s for a good reason.
I have some exciting news to share with you all—I am taking a short break from writing here on Substack until September as I embrace a wonderful new role: motherhood. This is an incredibly exciting time for me, and I am very much looking forward to this new chapter.
Reflection on my career and current Substack journey as a writer
Over the past 5+ years, my work in Platforms and Developer Tooling has been both challenging and rewarding. I've had the privilege to work with brilliant teams that build great products and push the boundaries of what internal PM’ing looks like. Some of my highlights include:
Building Developer Tools from 0 to 1: from Observability to Dev Portals
Building (a lot of) infrastructure from 0 to 1 and scaling it internally
Leading complex multi-regional infrastructure migrations
Working with some amazing engineering teams.
These experiences have not only built up my career but also helped me gain some knowledge that I have been sharing with you regularly.
If you’ve been a reader from the early days, some of you may know that my side hustle is studying for a PhD in Behavioral Economics (alongside my job), researching how we can build better, more consumer focused products. I’ve started my blog a year after my PhD, mainly to practice my writing. I never imagined it would grow into its own thing with over 2,000 readers and folks actually engaging with me as a result of my writing.
I am deeply grateful to each of you for your support and engagement with my work. Your comments, feedback, and interactions have been a source of motivation and inspiration. Building this community has been one of the best things about my writing. And I am only just getting started.
I've received numerous messages and comments that have not only encouraged me but also provided valuable insights into what resonates with you. What should I write about and what challenges do you encounter. Some of you have also told me that my blog helped you in your first 90 days as a Platform Product Manager. And that’s really humbling. So, thank you! All 2000+ of you.
Promoting Top Articles
While I am off, I will leave you with some of the most popular articles on my blog and a parting gift. Here are a few highlights:
The Role of a Platform Product Manager
Overview: The most viewed piece of content, tackling what is the actual role of a Platform Product Manager.
How to make an Impact as a Platform Product Manager
Overview: The one that brought me the most amount of engagement, where I talk about how we can make an impact in our roles, and what we should focus on.
Designing Developer Surveys in 3 parts
Overview: This article delves into the practicality of running developer surveys, alongside examples of questions we can ask.
Product Positioning in Platform
Overview: I think this is one of the hottest topics in our area that we don’t talk much about. A lot of the content is based on knowledge from
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Overview: Focused on building products to enable users to make better decision, this is a glimpse into my thesis and my on-going research.
In closing, I have one final artefact for you. Last month, I had the opportunity to collaborate with Reforge on some content, which you can check it out here: Product Success in B2B SaaS
Future Plans
When I return in September, I have some exciting plans lined up for this blog as I want to delve deeper into running Developer Experience initiatives inside organisations, building technical products as non-technical Product Managers and do more interviews with folks from our industry, as well as promoting new voices on my blog.
I am also planning to put together a course or a book so if that’s something that you would find useful, let me know on the usual channels.
Email: craciunmaria10@stud.ase.ro
Thank you for all the feedback and support - see ya in September!
Good news and look forward to your new plan at Sep.