Product & Engineering
Review
Your Product, Design and Engineering teams aren’t fully aligned, slowing delivery, impacting quality and morale, and putting customer outcomes at risk. A collaboration review helps uncover what’s getting in the way and how to fix it.
You’ve got good people…
But things aren’t quite clicking. Despite real effort to align Product, Design, and Engineering, the day-to-day still feels harder than it should.
The signs are frustratingly familiar…
Nothing is fundamentally broken, but the way teams work together isn’t quite right and it’s making progress more expensive than it needs to be.
You're going round in circles,
seeing the same problems again and again
"We're going to lose good people!"
"We're going to lose good people!"
"We're going to lose good people!"
"We're going to lose good people!"
"We're going to lose good people!"
"We're going to lose good people!"
"We're going to lose good people!"
"We're going to lose good people!"
"We're going to lose good people!"
"We're going to lose good people!"
What we examine
Strategic alignment
Are teams working toward the same outcomes or optimising for different goals?
Strategic alignment
Are teams working toward the same outcomes or optimising for different goals?
Customer & user clarity
Are decisions grounded in real user needs, or assumptions and internal pressure?
Customer & user clarity
Are decisions grounded in real user needs, or assumptions and internal pressure?
Product direction & prioritisation
Is there confidence in what to build next and why?
Product direction & prioritisation
Is there confidence in what to build next and why?
Product & Engineering collaboration
Where intent gets lost between discovery, design, and delivery.
Product & Engineering collaboration
Where intent gets lost between discovery, design, and delivery.
Delivery bottlenecks
What’s actually slowing teams down and what would unblock them.
Delivery bottlenecks
What’s actually slowing teams down and what would unblock them.
Release Confidence
Can you ship predictably without customer surprises or engineer burnout?
Release Confidence
Can you ship predictably without customer surprises or engineer burnout?
Technical & Design Debt
What’s genuinely holding you back vs what just feels messy.
Technical & Design Debt
What’s genuinely holding you back vs what just feels messy.
Build vs Buy Decisions
Where custom development creates value and where it drains focus.
Build vs Buy Decisions
Where custom development creates value and where it drains focus.
Team shape & capability
Whether the mix of product, design, and engineering roles fits your stage.
Team shape & capability
Whether the mix of product, design, and engineering roles fits your stage.
Cross-team communication
Where information is delayed, distorted, or missing altogether.
Cross-team communication
Where information is delayed, distorted, or missing altogether.
Quality & experience strategy
Whether reliability, usability, and risk are properly aligned.
Quality & experience strategy
Whether reliability, usability, and risk are properly aligned.
Scaling readiness
Will your current ways of working survive the next phase of growth?
Scaling readiness
Will your current ways of working survive the next phase of growth?
Your team
The review is delivered jointly by Stefan Ross and Jon Bennallick,
bringing complementary experience across engineering delivery & product leadership.
Jon Bennallick
Fractional Product & Engineering Consultant
I’m focused on growing my brand, improving my products, and finding smarter ways to market and package my work. I’m driven, curious, and committed to turning my design skills into something bigger.
Jon Bennallick
Fractional Product & Engineering Consultant
Stefan Ross
Fractional CTO
I’m focused on growing my brand, improving my products, and finding smarter ways to market and package my work. I’m driven, curious, and committed to turning my design skills into something bigger.
Stefan Ross
Fractional CTO
Your team
The review is delivered jointly by Stefan Ross and Jon Bennallick,
bringing complementary experience across engineering delivery & product leadership.
Jon Bennallick
Fractional Product & Engineering Consultant
I’m focused on growing my brand, improving my products, and finding smarter ways to market and package my work. I’m driven, curious, and committed to turning my design skills into something bigger.
Jon Bennallick
Fractional Product & Engineering Consultant
Stefan Ross
Fractional CTO
I’m focused on growing my brand, improving my products, and finding smarter ways to market and package my work. I’m driven, curious, and committed to turning my design skills into something bigger.
Stefan Ross
Fractional CTO
Engineers, SLTs and Product nerds love working with me.
"Would I work with Jon again?... I look FORWARD to working with Jon again!"
Dave Recchia
Director - The Team
"Working with Jon is such a great experience. His consultancy and advice is invaluable. He's also really fun to work with!"
Abbey Grocott
Strategy Director - Builtvisible
"The best thing about working with Jon is the pragmatism. He is really good at understanding when things need to be done by, what things need to be done and whether or not we need to do them at all. Also his translation from both customer and stakeholder feedback is really invaluable in a team."
Oliver Nural
Lead Engineer - Trustpilot
"Jon is a keen problem solver and analytical thinker that always tries to pull problems apart before putting solutions back together. He’s had good experience working with design systems and using them to build solutions."
Gregory Coe
Head of UX - denstu
"Jon is enthusiastic about the challenges and can iterate quickly to present new concepts, looking to balance innovation with business constraints and user needs. "
Gabriel Neves
Staff Designer @ LegalZoom
"To get the obvious out of the way; Jon is in many ways a quintessential digital product designer and is always a passionate advocate for the end user. But what he brings that is uniquely Jon is enthusiasm; not just for the role (of which there is plenty), but also for the environment and the relationships that surround the role. It isn't enough to be good at the job, but he must also try and ensure the people he's working with are, and the environment they're working in is, comfortable and creative."
Bob Ferry
Design Systems Lead - Quinyx
"I really enjoyed working with Jon, I've learnt a lot from him, and would truly recommend him as a skilful product designer and a great team player. He always puts a great effort into clarifying both the user and business needs and objectives, and makes sure to get alignment across the project team. "
Leontina Mati
Principle UX Researcher - dentsu
"I needed a contractor that I could just leave everything to, and not have to be worrying, and that's exactly what happened with Jon."
Sandra Gonzalez
UX Director - Trustpilot
"What's it like working with Jon? Incredibly easy! You feel assured. If you want to work with someone who's going to take control, who you can trust, who's confident infront of client's and who know's what they're doing, that's why I'd work with Jon"
Cliff Ettridge
Director - The Team
"Jon genuinely cares about what’s best for the team, the business and the users."
Emir Ailil
Product Designer - ZenBusiness
Engineers, SLTs and Product nerds love working with me.
"Would I work with Jon again?... I look FORWARD to working with Jon again!"
Dave Recchia
Director - The Team
"Working with Jon is such a great experience. His consultancy and advice is invaluable. He's also really fun to work with!"
Abbey Grocott
Strategy Director - Builtvisible
"The best thing about working with Jon is the pragmatism. He is really good at understanding when things need to be done by, what things need to be done and whether or not we need to do them at all. Also his translation from both customer and stakeholder feedback is really invaluable in a team."
Oliver Nural
Lead Engineer - Trustpilot
"Jon is a keen problem solver and analytical thinker that always tries to pull problems apart before putting solutions back together. He’s had good experience working with design systems and using them to build solutions."
Gregory Coe
Head of UX - denstu
"Jon is enthusiastic about the challenges and can iterate quickly to present new concepts, looking to balance innovation with business constraints and user needs. "
Gabriel Neves
Staff Designer @ LegalZoom
"To get the obvious out of the way; Jon is in many ways a quintessential digital product designer and is always a passionate advocate for the end user. But what he brings that is uniquely Jon is enthusiasm; not just for the role (of which there is plenty), but also for the environment and the relationships that surround the role. It isn't enough to be good at the job, but he must also try and ensure the people he's working with are, and the environment they're working in is, comfortable and creative."
Bob Ferry
Design Systems Lead - Quinyx
"I really enjoyed working with Jon, I've learnt a lot from him, and would truly recommend him as a skilful product designer and a great team player. He always puts a great effort into clarifying both the user and business needs and objectives, and makes sure to get alignment across the project team. "
Leontina Mati
Principle UX Researcher - dentsu
"I needed a contractor that I could just leave everything to, and not have to be worrying, and that's exactly what happened with Jon."
Sandra Gonzalez
UX Director - Trustpilot
"What's it like working with Jon? Incredibly easy! You feel assured. If you want to work with someone who's going to take control, who you can trust, who's confident infront of client's and who know's what they're doing, that's why I'd work with Jon"
Cliff Ettridge
Director - The Team
"Jon genuinely cares about what’s best for the team, the business and the users."
Emir Ailil
Product Designer - ZenBusiness
Let’s grab a coffee.
Based in Shoreditch, I'm always keen to discuss your product challenges either in person on online..
Let’s grab a coffee.
Based in Shoreditch, I'm always keen to discuss your product challenges either in person on online..
Let’s grab a coffee.
Based in Shoreditch, I'm always keen to discuss your product challenges either in person on online..
Contact
Bennallick Ltd.
The Black and White Building
74 Rivington St,
London
EC2A 3AY
+44 (0)7576 102 436
contact@bennallick.com
Contact
Bennallick Ltd.
The Black and White Building
74 Rivington St,
London
EC2A 3AY
+44 (0)7576 102 436
contact@bennallick.com
Contact
Bennallick Ltd.
The Black and White Building
74 Rivington St,
London
EC2A 3AY