It’s frustrating to deliver a feature exactly as specified and still wonder whether it solves a problem anyone actually has. Raising that question is one thing. Making a convincing case for a different approach, especially when work is already planned, is harder.

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Jon Bennallick

In Product Thinking for Engineers, the aim isn’t to turn developers into product managers. It helps engineers bring their judgment into product decisions: make sense of user feedback, weigh trade-offs, and push back on low-value work with evidence.

One thing I like about the book’s approach is that Jon includes projects that went wrong, including his own mistakes. The examples come from agencies, scale-ups, and smaller businesses, where there isn’t always a dedicated product team to help work through these questions.

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