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What is a Product Engineer?

Viljami Kuosmanen on February 29, 2024

Read the full Product Engineer Manifesto at productengineer.org Not Just Coders, but Builders Picture this: engineers who don't just sp...
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Fatemeh Paghar

The call for a balance between product thinking and technical execution is crucial. Product Engineers play a pivotal role in ensuring that the products they build align with the user's needs and contribute to the overall success of the product. The Product Engineer Manifesto is a great initiative to formalize and promote this mindset.

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Viljami Kuosmanen

Thanks a lot for the kind words @fpaghar!

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Manikandan SP

Impressive take on defining and understanding about product engineering !!! I have personally felt that different roles associated directly or indirectly with software engineering like SDE, QA, data engineers, business analyst, product managers etc should have been amalgamated with product engineering as this is a building block of efficient softwares

Also we should take one step back from our current roles or designations to have the view of product engineers so we could see from customer's view along with a builder's view to grasp the user empathy

Key takeaway is "finding balance" !

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Kerem Nalbant

Very well explained šŸ˜

"How does this feature add value to the user? What impact will this improvement have on the product's overall vision? How can we measure the success of our work?"

The way to be a better product engineer is to ask the key questions and have teammates who will give you the key answers. In other words, not only you, but also your team needs to understand the product and the users.

I think we have achieved this very well at epilot.

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Eka Terima

Love it šŸ˜