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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

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We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. I started my career as a software engineer. How are we building production-quality software? I think that was in 2004. What does that mean?

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Product in Practice: Mapping Business and Product Outcomes to Stand Out in the Job Search

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It’s often more common to see project-based user research rather than an ongoing, iterative discovery process.” Tweet This Teeba liked how Teresa focuses on continuous discovery, and she learned about the opportunity solution tree at a conference. . This one focuses on customer support within the platform.

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Product in Practice: Introducing Opportunity Solution Trees at Texthelp

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Tali Melchior , Director of Product Management at Texthelp , was first inspired to experiment with opportunity solution trees in a previous role. Then when Tali moved to her current position, she brought her opportunity solution tree knowledge along and adapted it to the new setting. It was a great experience,” says Tali.

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Product in Practice: Why Ramsey Solutions Rotates Engineers in Their Product Trios

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We’ll hear from several members of the product team at Ramsey Solutions about their not-so-smooth transition to working in product trios, especially when it came to getting engineers to participate. Intro to Ramsey Solutions Ramsey Solutions provides common-sense education about money and personal finance.

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Opportunity Solution Trees: Visualize Your Discovery to Stay Aligned and Drive Outcomes

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Opportunity solution trees help product teams chart the best path to their desired outcome. Opportunity solution trees help product teams chart the best path to their desired outcome. – Tweet This In this article, we’ll cover what an opportunity solution tree is, the benefits of using one, how to create one, and so much more.

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Priority Starts at the Top

Folding Burritos

Technical debt can be valued in terms of “future change” outcomes like improved delivery velocity or better platform scalability, for example. A lot of our product work requires discovery, which is why the Opportunity-Solution-Experiment concepts in Teresa Torres’ tree are ideal. However, other types of work don’t need that.

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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

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Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feature parity, etc. During the project, teams were organized by platform (web, iOS, Android, etc.), In April 2023, CBC finished a 3.5-year