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Internal-Platform Product Canvas

A canvas that sets out an internal platform as a product: its users, their jobs, the paved road, adoption metrics and anti-goals.

First page of Internal-Platform Product Canvas

What's inside

  • Platform identity: name, one-sentence mission, owner and version.
  • Users: primary and secondary developer teams, personas and pain points.
  • Jobs to be done: three jobs in a when/I want/so I can format, and the jobs the platform will not do.
  • The paved road: what it includes, the off-road option and the support commitment.
  • Five adoption metrics, such as adoption rate and time to first deploy, and four anti-goal prompts.
  • A completed example for a fictional developer platform.

Format: PDF (4 pages) and PowerPoint file.

How to use it

Fill it in with the platform team and its users, and revisit the metrics and anti-goals each planning cycle.

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