Phase 5 · Requirements & Documentation
TopicsEdge Case Thinking
Part of the Product Management Roadmap.
Summary
Systematically asking 'what happens when...' — empty states, network failures, permission errors, concurrent edits — before engineers discover them mid-sprint.
How to Learn This
- 1Take a feature idea and list 10 edge cases across empty, error, and boundary states.
- 2Learn the categories: empty state, error state, loading state, permission state.
- 3Practice this on a feature you've used that clearly missed an edge case.
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