Product Development#

Product thinking for engineers – how to decide what to build, validate that it matters, and test ideas before committing to full implementation. Claude Code makes product work accessible from the same terminal where you write code.

• Product Thinking – Why engineers should care about product work. The gap between building and solving, a concrete example of product-blind vs. product-aware engineering, and how this section is organized.
• User Research & Validation – Discovering what users need from your terminal. Support ticket analysis, interview synthesis, competitive analysis, usage data interpretation, and validation techniques with Claude Code prompts.
• Requirements & Specifications – Turning research into buildable definitions. Requirement formats, feature decomposition via vertical slicing, edge case discovery, and a worked example from vague request to build prompt.
• Prototyping & Iteration – Building to learn, not to ship. Prototype types, the Claude Code prototyping workflow, a full prototype cycle example, and anti-patterns that turn prototypes into production code.
• Prioritization & Trade-offs – Deciding what to build next. Impact vs. effort, RICE scoring, opportunity cost, cost of delay, saying no with data, and modeling trade-offs with Claude Code.