Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

“Product thought leaders talk about an ideal way of working. I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” product outcomes).

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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Mobile surveys are powerful in understanding sentiment, but only if they’re shown at the right place and time within the app, to the right consumer segment. Through mobile, short surveys with specific asks (like feedback on a new feature) are effective and efficient. Why you should use mobile surveys.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 26, 2021

Your customers are already on their phones – meet them where they’re at through in-app feedback collection. This eliminates the amount of steps customers have to take to give you feedback, which further increases the number of people willing to give you that feedback. Why you should be collecting in-app feedback.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

The foundation of continuous discovery is weekly touchpoints with customers. These touchpoints will allow you to collect stories that help you identify opportunities and build out your opportunity solution tree. It sounds simple, but what happens if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet?

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 14, 2020

For this month’s Product Talk post, I recorded a video where I consider the difference between product managers and product owners. I want to talk about product managers and product owners. I’ve had several companies ask me if they should be hiring product managers or product owners.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Opportunity solution trees are a simple way of visually representing the paths you might take to reach a desired outcome. Below the opportunity space is the solution space. This is where we’ll visually depict the solutions we are exploring. Below the solution space are assumption tests.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Assumption testing is at the heart of what good continuous discovery teams do week over week. But before we can test our assumptions, we have to identify them. The challenge is that we need to be able to see our assumptions before we can test them. It’s how we evaluate which ideas will work and which won’t.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It might be the same core product, but it’s a completely different strategy. Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2024

If youve been reading Product Talk for a while, you probably already know that the majority of the stories we share in the Product in Practice series focus on how product teams are adopting continuous discovery habits in their work. Do you have a Product in Practice story youd like to share? But not today.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The numbers behind smartphone and app use, though, are truly mind-blowing. Consider these statistics : Smartphone users access an average of 30 mobile apps in a month, at an average rate of 10 every day. Mobile apps are expected to generate more than $935 billion in funds by the end of 2024. Always test, test, and test again.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

When it comes to continuous discovery , there’s no such thing as “the perfect tool.” Instead of seeking the best tool out there, it’s much more effective to look for the best tool for your team. Teresa often says, “The best tool is the one that your team will use.” Today, we’re taking a slightly different approach.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. Meet your co-presenters, product discovery coaches Teresa Torres and Hope Gurion. We are both product discovery coaches with Product Talk. Thank you so much.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Introduction to customer satisfaction surveys Customer satisfaction surveys are vital tools for understanding what customers think, feel, and experience. Surveys provide a range of insights, from quick feedback after a purchase to in-depth assessments of brand loyalty.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Last week, I was in Cleveland for the Industry Product Conference. I spoke about the three mindsets that help a team find success as a continuous discovery team. Becoming a successful discovery team. Product management is changing. Product managers are evolving from focusing on outputs to outcomes. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

Leading a product team (or several teams) comes with its own set of challenges that’s often similar to but distinct from the hurdles individual product contributors face. That’s why it’s especially enlightening when you encounter a product leader who is willing to openly share the challenges they’ve faced. Teresa: Okay.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Hello, Product Talk readers! It’s time for another installment of Product in Practice. In this series, we highlight the impressive work that forward-thinking product teams are doing. Find our other Product in Practice posts here. During her tenure as a data scientist, Lisa built two predictive products. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

APRIL 20, 2022

“I get that the continuous discovery habits framework works well for mature products, but does it work for early-stage startups?”. I spent all of my full-time employee experience at early-stage startups (many of them pre-product) and I relied on these same habits to figure out what to build. This question always surprises me.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. If an organization wants to shift to product teams (empowered to drive outcomes) they need to structure them so each team includes the necessary skills and abilities required to build and deliver customer value.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 18, 2023

Saying no is a huge part of excelling in your product practice. Product people naturally want to solve any problems they’re presented with. Of course there’s always a tradeoff. Continuous discovery can help. Have your own Product in Practice story you’d like to share? But this isn’t always easy. Tweet This.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

We’ve broken the concept of product adoption into five key stages, outlined product adoption metrics, and provided some strategies for how to improve product adoption. What is product adoption? Product adoption refers to how customers embrace and use a product. Product design and usability are seamless.

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Product Talk

MAY 3, 2023

In the book, the authors recommend that for any new product idea, we need to consider the monetization potential from the very beginning. Assessing a customer’s willingness to pay is a critical discovery activity that directly ties to our viability assumptions. They may not be solving it with software, but they are solving it somehow.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 5, 2022

The following data and information is from our 2022 Mobile App Customer Engagement Report. Subcategories for Finance Apps: Fintech, Banking, Insurance. Finance apps experienced another year of customer engagement gains as people became more comfortable with managing their finances through apps. Popular phrases.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. In this third and final conversation in the series, we discussed two core principles of continuous discovery : why it’s essential to set up compare and contrast decisions and surface and test assumptions.

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

Welcome to the latest installment of Product in Practice! For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions , and using the opportunity solution tree to guide their work.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. What isn’t so often clear is how to do this on a day-to-day basis, when we’re not as experienced or when we deal with “less than ideal” products and organizations. Understand where it’s coming from.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2019

I teach two courses at Northwestern University. I want to share a little bit more about the work that I am doing there as I think it’s relevant for people working at companies who are starting to adopt continuous discovery practices (in other words, many of you). This course is a 3-day seminar and our students are working executives.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

– to come back on to the podcast and chat about how to make sure that, despite everything that’s going on, you continue to incorporate discovery into your practice. Then there’s the second piece of it: What’s the part of Discovery that’s going to stay stable over time? Customer Discovery.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 6, 2021

While the year was disastrous for many food and drink companies, there were also many whose apps tell incredible tales of resilience, ingenuity, and embracing the digital shift. Read on for data-supported research and benchmarks Food and Drink apps should focus on in 2021 and beyond based on what was learned from a year like no other.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 13, 2021

In our 2021 Mobile App Engagement Benchmark Report , a study of 1,000 apps across a billion+ app installs, we take a close look at apps in the Food and Drink category. 2021 Engagement Benchmarks for Retail and eCommerce Apps. The average Shopping iOS app saw 183,873 app store ratings, received a 4.65

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Product Talk

MARCH 6, 2024

When you’re building a product, you can easily get overwhelmed by ideas. For today’s Tools of the Trade , we caught up with Leann Schneider , Product Manager at Plum. They started using Pendo to manage these insights and make sure they were giving everyone a voice without disrupting the product team’s workflow.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

I've been reflecting on the last decade in Product Management. Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy."

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

It’s increasingly clear that the tools we use shape the work we do in all sorts of ways , so picking the right tool for your task is absolutely critical. And even more so when you’re trying to pick a tool to be used by a diverse team spread around the world. The company had to pay for redundant software.

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Product Talk

JUNE 7, 2023

Adopting continuous discovery can feel like a big, audacious goal. If you don’t currently work in a product trio at all, how will you be able to work and make decisions cross-functionally on a regular basis? If you’ve never used an opportunity solution tree before, how will you incorporate this tool into your daily workflow?

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Product Talk

AUGUST 2, 2023

One of the most common responses I get when I talk about continuous discovery is: “That would never work in my organization.” But after working with thousands of product people and organizations of all kinds, I can tell you that everyone is capable of making progress on their continuous discovery journey. What Is Discovery?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

The term product owner is commonly used to refer to six different product roles in my experience. These are: The original Scrum product owner who owns a product in its entirety and is responsible for maximising the value it creates. A platform owner who manages a platform as a collection of shared software assets.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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