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

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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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

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

OCTOBER 4, 2017

I love working as a discovery coach. I coach each team—a product manager, a design lead, and a tech lead—for three months, working with them virtually week over week. During that time, we focus on developing their research skills (e.g. During that time, we focus on developing their research skills (e.g.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2021

Product Discovery is an exercise in working out whether there are customers that want the product (or feature) you’re working on and that you can deliver a solution to them. Product Discovery comes in different shapes and sizes, depending on the situation. Why do a Product Discovery?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A lot of product teams claim to be focused on their users. This is why Teresa talks about continuous discovery in terms of forming new habits. It’s not so much about becoming perfect at continuous discovery (because there really isn’t such a thing). Have a Product in Practice story you’d like to share with Product Talk readers?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest Post by: Eric Wang (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler]. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. Make a list of the scope and the challenges to your product. Second Attempt.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. Vision Captures Product Idea or Business Objective. A good vision exercises pull—it describes a future state that people want to bring about.

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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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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Continuous discovery is more of a journey than a destination. If your sales team isn’t bought in, for example, they won’t want to sell your new product or feature. If your sales team isn’t bought in, for example, they won’t want to sell your new product or feature. Continuous discovery is more of a journey than a destination.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Continuous discovery is about changing your behavior. That’s why Teresa named her book Continuous Discovery Habits. You don’t just think your way into continuous discovery. You don’t just think your way into continuous discovery. Let’s be clear: The tools alone won’t automatically make you better at discovery.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2017

I’ve been thinking about the challenges of managing product teams by outcomes. So I started to wonder: How do we empower product teams? How do managers monitor and provide feedback without dictating and controlling? But before we get to those questions, let’s first explore why managing product teams by outcomes matter.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

I’ve been coaching product teams for three years on modern product discovery and this single change has had a bigger impact on how teams work than everything else I do with them combined. It all started a few months ago… The Messy Challenge of Modern Product Discovery. Or you will be left wanting more.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Why should you use customer discovery? How can product managers use it to test assumptions and uncover opportunities? These are the key questions that Susan Stavitzki, the Senior Product Manager at CarMax, discussed during her presentation at the Product Drive Summit this year. What is customer discovery?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Experimental Design For Product Testing?—?Important The use of controlled experiments to understand and test ideas also extends to the online world, in the form of A/B testing. This article assumes a basic understanding of A/B testing. This article assumes a basic understanding of A/B testing.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

There are all kinds of ways to introduce continuous discovery habits. And if you’re really excited about an idea, you might look for opportunities to share it outside your company with the broader product community. Today’s Product in Practice features a continuous discovery champion who did all three.

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Folding Burritos

JANUARY 25, 2018

There’s high-level communication and discussion, and there’s low-level interaction with stakeholders about the day-to-day of the product’s development and operation. It seems that we’re endlessly providing (or seeking) answers about anything related to the product. Which are the biggest problems in the product right now?”.

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 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. Welcome to “Why There’s No Single ‘Right’ Way to Do Product Discovery.” We’re both product discovery coaches with Product Talk. Find it here.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Product Interview?—?A A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. There’s been so much written, including by myself, about product management interviews. But is a surprisingly small amount of materials about the technical aspect of PM work.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Concept testing is an integral part of designing UX that not only satisfies user needs but delights them. This article introduces various concept tests, shows you how to conduct them, and discusses ways to collect user feedback to gain actionable insights. Consider using AI for qualitative feedback analysis.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Below, you’ll find what I believe is the most actionable, specific, and straightforward framework for crafting a strategy, for both your product and your company. Subscribe now. So we teamed up to make that happen.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

Whether youre grappling with a delayed product launch or a strained relationship, the path forward begins by uncovering the deeper truths beneath the surface. Product managers live and breathe this approach, diving beyond symptoms to address root causes. Imagine what could happen if we applied those skills beyond products.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet I think serious product discovery and end user validation may be stuck in this cultural/conceptual gap.  Product features.  Commitments

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Discover how to enhance user experiences by leveraging quantitative research, usability testing, and A/B testing to make informed, data-driven design decisions that lead to measurable results. These tools enable you to collect feedback and use that data to refine your product’s design and functionality.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. A first step to form effective product teams is therefore to identify the products in your organisation. But what is a product? This sounds simple enough.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 11, 2024

The Discover, Analyze, Create, Develop Design Thinking Framework for product managers You’ve heard about Design Thinking or even tried it. It is a simple-to-understand tool for solving problems, developing strategy, and most commonly for us product professionals, for developing a new product or service.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Hi there, Product Talk readers! Here at Product Talk, we’re excited about showcasing what good product management looks like. That’s why we recently launched the Product in Practice series , where we’re highlighting excellent work that different product teams are doing. It’s me, Melissa. I’m Teresa’s blog editor.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

The value of a test kitchen when creating a product is immense. The ability to test and iterate based on real usage with real users is invaluable to getting to the root of a problem, understanding a user’s existence, and removing friction. So, what does a product test kitchen look like?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

80 to over 100 hours per week to “change the world” is what Elon Musk wrote in a 2018 tweet, referring to what was considered a standard working week at the time Tesla was ramping up production of its Model 3 sedans. from ‘ Drive’ All top product leaders know the importance that vision plays in the success of a product.

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Productside

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Overview Charles River Laboratories aimed to enhance its product management practices and foster better team alignment. To meet these objectives, Productside delivered a tailored Optimal Product Management course featuring custom exercises designed to tackle the company’s unique challenges.

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Userpilot

MARCH 4, 2021

In-app survey questions can be one of the most effective tools when running product research. But crafting surveys is a bit of a work of art. But crafting surveys is a bit of a work of art. Benefits Best Practices for In-App Survey Questions 31 in-App Survey Questions You Must Ask Your Users How Userpilot Helps.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Welcome to the third installation of our digital transformation interview series, where successful product and marketing leaders share what’s top-of-mind, how to overcome obstacles, where the marketplace is going, and tips for success. Prioritization is mostly a rational exercise. Here’s what Lauren had to say!

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Product teams are also held to time-bound goals. Empowered product teams, for example, are asked to deliver outcomes each quarter. They ask product teams to deliver specific features by specific dates. The same is true for product teams. But sometimes companies take this too far. Tweet This Our work is unpredictable.

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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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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

With technology underpinning all business processes today, with the pace at which new technologies are emerging, companies need to introduce new products and services at a faster rate than their competitors using user acceptance testing software to meet the needs of the end user. What Is A Good User Acceptance Testing Definition?

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