Roman Pichler

MARCH 3, 2025

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Product Teams: Benefits and Challenges A product team is a group of people who collaborate effectively, have ownership of a product , and are responsible for achieving product success. 1] Whats more, product people rely on others to help them progress their products.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Product Talk

JUNE 12, 2024

Identifying and testing assumptions is a critical part of continuous discovery. But what happens when your assumption tests don’t go as planned? Tweet This Today’s Product in Practice is a lesson in perseverance. Tweet This Today’s Product in Practice is a lesson in perseverance.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 4, 2021

It won’t surprise you to hear that I use the same continuous discovery habits that I wrote about in my book to run my business. My primary objective across my business is to increase the number of product trios who adopt a continuous cadence to their discovery work. Turning My Content Into a Product. That was a mistake.

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Product Talk

MARCH 16, 2022

Visualizing discovery work with an opportunity solution tree has been a game-changer for both me and the teams that I work with. This sets the scope for our discovery. From there, an effective team is doing two key research activities week over week. Assumption testing is evaluative. Interviewing is generative.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A regular cadence of assumption testing helps product teams quickly determine which ideas will work and which ones won’t. And sadly, most product teams don’t do any assumption testing at all. In this article, I’ll cover assumption testing from beginning to end, including: Why should product teams test their assumptions?

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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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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The larger and more complex your company is, the more challenging it can be to introduce continuous discovery. Sandrine Veillet ’s Product in Practice story perfectly exemplifies this. Sandrine Veillet ’s Product in Practice story perfectly exemplifies this. Do you have a Product in Practice story you’d like to share?

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome to JEDI Training for Continuous Discovery Teams. I work as a product discovery coach. I’ve had the luxury of working with teams all over the world, and I teach them a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. Here’s how I’m redefining JEDI training in a product context.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. Introduction: What Is Product Discovery?

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Laura and her team spend every working hour researching, designing, and experimenting with ways to measure and improve team velocity (while avoiding burnout). Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

How product managers use Jobs-To-Be-Done to create products customers love Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I explain the Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) framework, a powerful approach to understanding customer needs and developing successful products.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 8, 2018

I’m co-teaching a design course at Northwestern with my friend Jeff Merrell. We are teaching business leaders and change agents how to prototype their way to viable solutions. In this context, solutions aren’t product solutions, but rather internal programs and processes that effect change within the organization.

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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

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

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 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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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

Image by TamannaRumee Product redesign is an inevitable thing. No matter how good your original product is, you will likely decide to redesign it at some point in time. No matter what is your utlimatite goal is, you need to treat product redesign strategically. What parts of the system design will be addressed?

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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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UX Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2024

There is no such thing as a universal product design process. Product design process cheatsheet by Prophecy Product Design Cheatsheet is a helpful document created by Prophecy that provides a step-by-step workflow for product development, focusing on 6 key stages of the design process.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If there is one thing thats altering the way we create user experience (UX) designs and conduct research in 2024, it is definitely artificial intelligence (AI). From new UX-related technologies and automation to personalization. UX experts have already integrated AI into their daily lives in one way or another. No one can denythat.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I talk to a lot of PMs and I ask them (and everyone who subscribes to my newsletter) the same question: what’s your biggest struggle as a Product Manager? Having put together a fairly popular resource on product prioritization methods, I would’ve hoped the situation to be different. But it’s not.

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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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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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Product Talk

JANUARY 3, 2024

Can a single course change your career trajectory? For Mike Donovan , Senior Vice President of Product at Sauce Labs , the answer to that question is a resounding yes. Can a single course change your career trajectory? Mike began his career as an engineer and transitioned into product about five years ago.

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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

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 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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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

Guest Post by: Candice Zhang (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Tauheed Ahmed]. When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. It is a good tool to have and can be used over and over again. .

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Questions product managers ask me about how to improve innovation Watch on YouTube TLDR Product managers are pivotal in driving innovation within organizations. By mastering these areas, product managers can improve their skills, boost their influence, and contribute more effectively to their organization’s success.

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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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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

A product manager just stopped by the desk of the designer on a lazy Thursday afternoon. I’ve been in this situation while I worked with various product teams as a designer. Designers and UX researchers will be motivated if you give them important product issues to solve. Designers can help product people a lot.

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Product Talk

MAY 19, 2021

I am so excited to announce Continuous Discovery Habits is finally here! This book is designed to be a product trio’s guide to a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. It’s the culmination of my work over the past eight years helping hundreds of product teams adopt successful continuous discovery habits.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Then show the importance of targeting your customers with mobile surveys, and provide tips on how to effectively use them to drive mobile customer engagement and feedback. Obviously, in order to start segmenting on demographic data, you’ll need a system and CRM to collect this information. Let’s jump right in. Nationality.

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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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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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UX Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The canvases listed below can streamline the product design process and will help you consider the bigger picture when doing individual design activities. Business Model Canvas (BMC) BMC is a tool used to map out key elements of a business model in a single page. It visualizes how the business operates and creates value.

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