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    Product engineering: decisions that decide the product

    A product is mostly decided before the first sprint: what discovery produces, what the first version leaves out, which stack you can maintain, and what each customer costs to serve. This section covers those decisions, written by engineers who have taken products from first commit to paying customers since 2004.

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      What a discovery phase should give you in two to three weeks

      The six documents to expect, and the red flags if they are missing

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      What to leave out of your MVP

      Cutting features without cutting the thing that proves the product

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      AI in a SaaS product: cost per customer and margin

      Why per-tenant AI cost decides your pricing, and how to measure it

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      Changing development partners: the handover checklist

      What to secure before, during and after a switch