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Product Discovery for Engineers

A working engineer's guide to product discovery — user interviews, data-informed decisions, A/B testing, feature flags, shadow and canary launches, and kill criteria. The practices that turn engineers into builders of the right thing.

6 chapters

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Why Good Features Still Fail: Lessons from Code Review and User Research

Code review catches bugs. User research catches wrong assumptions. Most teams do one well. Successful teams do both. Here is why technically excellent features fail — and how engineers can close the gap.

Apr 22, 2026product-mindsetuser-researchcode-review