The Product Guy

APRIL 17, 2022

Bring everyone together for product definition and discovery and deliver better results. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Mihaela Draghici.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2025

A product manager’s guide to breaking free from reactive problem solving Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Doug Hall, master of turning chaos into clarity, we explored how product managers and innovation leaders can break free from reactive problem-solving and create more value through proactive innovation.

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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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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 Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 21, 2024

How product managers can foster a culture of innovation Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR In this episode of Product Mastery Now, I’m interviewing Chris Elmore, a tech entrepreneur and college professor who helped found Avid Exchange, a unicorn startup that went public in 2021.

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Product Talk

MAY 1, 2024

If you are working on your discovery habits, check out the lineup and come join one. This event is a great fit for product managers, designers, engineers, and any other roles involved in building digital products who are using opportunity solution trees to manage their discovery efforts (or would like to). Register here.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Some people argued a different role owned defining the ideal customer profile (ICP) there were votes for product, sales, customer success, and even finance. Product (and design and engineering) needs to know who they are building for. In 2022, 1,998 of you told us about your product trio habits. And it got me thinking.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It’s true that discovery takes time. Interviewing customers , building opportunity solution trees , running assumption tests —these are all activities that take your attention away from delivery. But I’m also a firm believer that discovery doesn’t come at the expense of delivery. Teresa Torres: Hi, everyone.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

I’m disappointed to see the rise of generative AI tools that are designed to replace discovery with real humans. But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. Don’t get me wrong.

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Product Talk

MARCH 20, 2024

March 25th: The What & Why of Continuous Discovery In this webinar, I’ll introduce participants to the continuous discovery framework I introduced in my book Continuous Discovery Habits. It’s also a great event to share with colleagues who are new to continuous discovery. Register here. Register here. Register here.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Engineers are often reluctant to participate in discovery. But there are many reasons why engineers are one of the essential members of the product trio. Their perspective is valid and can lead to meaningful product improvements. By getting involved in continuous discovery. And this is a good thing.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 15, 2019

This discussion will cover validating problems with data, constructing hypotheses, and prioritizing what to test first. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Taya Page, lead a conversation on this topic. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Politics will always be a part of the product manager job. The definition of success is hard to nail down. The definition of success can be a moving target. The definition of success differs between your boss, engineering, the CEO. You will need to manage your “reputation” in the organization.

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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). Product velocity is about speed and direction.

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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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Product Talk

JULY 10, 2024

August 6th: The What & Why of Continuous Discovery In this webinar, I’ll introduce participants to the continuous discovery framework I outlined in my book Continuous Discovery Habits. It’s also an excellent opportunity to introduce colleagues to the concepts of continuous discovery. They’ve been a ton of fun.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 26, 2020

Guest Post by: Andraž Zvonar (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Dimitris Sotiriou ]. Product teams are a multidisciplinary unit of people, usually none of the members being a direct report to one another (other than the team lead). Too much product work, too many changes, that’s not gonna work… he would say.

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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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

So I asked the team to share the playbook we’ve used to help prepare them to begin Definition. Read on for the Definition Playbook written by Rebecca Monfries and Nathan Bruce. What is Definition? Once you have completed enough discovery on your product or feature, the next stage is to prepare for the development process?—?to

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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. Well, th at’s the role of a product strategy.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. This article will help reduce such churn by refining your product management and UX analysis approach. Even though they’re the ones using the product. How to start your UX analysis.

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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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Product Talk

JUNE 16, 2021

In this short video, I address the most common question I’ve received since releasing my book Continuous Discovery Habits: Why didn’t you include my role in the product trio ? Who should you include in your product trio? Does a product trio exclude everyone else from discovery decisions? Product marketing managers?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 15, 2021

No company is perfect, especially when it comes to continuous discovery. No company is perfect, especially when it comes to continuous discovery. You can probably easily list off where your current company is nailing it and where there’s room for improvement when it comes to adopting continuous discovery habits. Tweet This.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Surveying your mobile customers is a great way to find out more about who they are, what drives them back to your app, how they feel about your app, and what they’d like improved. These are questions you can only answer by looking at the individuality of each customer: What do they care about in your product? Gather product feedback.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Wouldn’t it be great to see all user interactions with your product as they happen? By showing how users interact with different elements on the page or product screen, session replays provide product teams , designers, and marketers with valuable insights into user behavior. Every click, scroll, hover, or keystroke?

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 31, 2022

A mobile survey that is served to your customers at the right place and right time helps you understand who they are, why they use your app, and what improvements they want to see. Ultimately, most brands are unable to answer their most important product question: what makes a customer a customer? Gather product feedback.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

It’s no secret that engineers can be hesitant to participate in product trios. Or they might question how doing discovery is going to serve their short and long-term career ambitions. Do you have a Product in Practice story you’d like to share? The overarching goal of Ramsey Solutions products? You can submit yours here.

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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. UX audit checklist prepared by Maze.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2021

Here, I’ll share why we decided to revamp our NPS strategy, what survey mechanics proved most effective, and how we’re delivering value by providing actionable customer insights across our company. Revamping how we do NPS surveys. NPS surveys aren’t new to Intercom – we’ve been running them in one form or another for years.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Our industry is in the midst of a big philosophical debate about the fundamental way of thinking about how we build our products, with the focus shifting from the outputs of what we build to the business outcomes generated by those outputs. The Product Impact Framework felt like a natural progression from features to outcome.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

September 30th: Assumption Testing: Quickly Find Your Winning Ideas In this one-hour webinar, I’ll introduce several tactics for how to quickly determine which ideas will work and which won’t. It’s also an excellent opportunity to introduce colleagues to the concepts of continuous discovery. Register here. Register here.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Fear not, product managers. It’s going to make you a better product manager than you ever imagined. Taking You Out of Your Comfort Zone Get ready, product managers because AI is definitely going to change your job if it hasn’t already, but you’re going to love it! Imagine directing your product more than managing it.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Guest Post by: Vivek Karna (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, John Masterson]. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. . Understanding the Role Definition.

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