Product Engineer Checklist TLDR 📘 What is a Product Engineer? Definition: Product engineers are not just coders but builders who care deeply about the entire product, from design to customer satisfaction. Counter to Hyperspecialization: Unlike specialized roles (e.g., frontend, backend), product engineers have a holistic view, bridging gaps between different technical domains. AI: AI tools enhance the role by making specialized tasks more accessible, allowing engineers to focus on product strategy and user experience. Product Engineer Manifesto Core Values: Builders first, software engineers second. Emphasis on combining product thinking with technical execution. Principles: Asking why, continuous delivery, market & customer understanding, teamwork, dogfooding the product yourself, and strategic thinking. Checklist 1. Understand User: Identify who the user is, their needs, pains, and how to delight them. Customer: Distinguish between users and paying customers, understand what makes the product valuable to customers. Market: Analyze the market landscape, competition, and industry standards. Ask Why: Continuously question to uncover root causes and motivations. Leverage Existing Knowledge: Build on existing insights, avoid starting from scratch. 2. Craft Pride in Work: Maintain high standards, avoid technical debt, and ensure quality. Product Feel: Develop a taste for what makes a product great; focus on smooth, intuitive experiences. Efficiency: Deliver quickly and iteratively, prioritize visible progress. Teamwork: Effective communication and leveraging team strengths are crucial. 3. Growth Measure Success: Use analytics and feedback to evaluate the impact of your work. Maximize Impact: Focus on significant bottlenecks, align efforts with company goals, and seek feedback. Stay Ahead: Stay updated on trends, benchmark against competitors, and encourage innovation. 4. Product Vision North Star: Align with the broader product vision and strategy. Design Impact: Ensure new work fits well within the existing design, aiming for simplicity and consistency. Ambition Level: Define whether the goal is incremental improvement or revolutionary change, and prioritize accordingly. This checklist serves as a practical guide for software engineers who wish to level up their career to build great products and break the stereotypes of engineers being thought of as only narrow technologists.

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RT @GergelyOrosz: To understand how software engineering will change when anyone (technical or not) can hire an AI agent to spit out code:…

You should jump on the AI wagon instead of feeling threatened by it. Being good at writing code is just not enough anymore. Learn to build products and develop a taste for great user experience.

RT @Chesschick01:

@via_marketing_ @matths screw developer communities. build real products.

I love the smell of a hardware store

@matths Don’t get me wrong, not at all against people making money from dev tools. Would be hypocritical since I do that myself! 😅 I dislike large VC/PE-backed operations with marketing budgets and big teams focused on building for other devs. I think these companies are doomed to fail

@matths Some fairly popular ones: Docker, JetBrains, Postman, Serverless Framework, Hashicorp, Cypress

2b || !2b that is the question

Becoming a parent is like bootcamp for your immune system. Gonna be indestructible after 10 years.

@CicmilJovan

@Jarkko_Moilanen 🚀

RT @mmjukic: You met a German?

@ddunderfelt Thank you @jpepinho for giving me the questions! A finn can indeed learn something from a portuguese in sauna! ❤️💪

@otso_lap Mallorca

@sindresorhus I want to use my $3000 crazy fast macbook apple silicon to speed up CI compute, instead of paying for cloud runner minutes

@relequestual Any time!