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+title: Product Thinking for Cloud Native Engineers
+weight: 1
+tags:
+ - platform
+ - org
+ - management
+---
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+This is a slightly updated version of the KubeCon EU 2025 Talk of the same name.
+Please check out [my notes of the KubeCon talk](https://kubecon25.nicolai-ort.com/day0/08_product-thinking) for additional details and the original recording + slides. 
+
+## But Why?
+
+- Focus on user value and outcome
+- Create visibility for things that are usually not that visible (operatrions, planning, ...)
+
+## And What
+
+### Principles
+
+- Problem > Solution
+- Outcome > Output
+- Product > Project
+
+### For whom?
+
+- Builders (Platform Dev, Product Dev)
+- Enablers (Platform Dev, Service Providers)
+- Regulators
+- Viewers (Controlling, Finance)
+
+## Problems > Solutions
+
+### First steps
+
+1. Find the problem that is the most important (has the most value) to solve
+2. Understand the problem to figure out how to solve it
+
+![Product compass illustration](../_img/product-compass.png)
+
+### Defining the problem space
+
+Goals:
+- Identify opportunities
+- Prioritise
+- Gather insignts and data
+
+Techniques:
+- Value stream mapping
+- RICE, Value vs Effort or ather cost benefit analysis
+- Analyse your exploration proces
+
+## Metrics
+
+- If you don't provide your own metrics, someone else will guesstimate some for you - this might result in metrics that don't represent the value you provide
+- Product metrics should measure outcome not output (or performance metrics)
+- Baseline: You need to know the desired outcome
+
+## And how?
+
+### With Frameworks
+
+- DevEx: Balance Flow State, Feedback Loops and Cognitive Load
+- Internal Platform Scorecard (by Syntasso): Speed (Time to deploy), Safety (Policy compliance), Efficiency (mean time to upgrade), Scalabulity (Mean time to new service)
+- DORA
+- Space
+- DX Core 4
+
+### At the engineer level
+
+- Look at: Which outcomes do you want to reach
+- Side-Benefit: Easy to explain to management
+- You can do it yourself without a PO or PM