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Teresa Torres

Bend, Oregon

Teresa is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and coach. She teaches a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. She has taught over 16,000 people product discovery skills and is the author of Continuous Discovery Habits.

No Time for Discovery? Here’s How to Fix It.

No Time for Discovery? Here’s How to Fix It.

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. Both activities should happen in tandem

A Conversation with Petra Wille: My Approach to the Continuous Discovery Habits Community

A Conversation with Petra Wille: My Approach to the Continuous Discovery Habits Community

Reading is one of my favorite ways to spend my time. I’ve designed my business to allow plenty of time for reading books, articles, interviews, etc. As much as I love reading, I firmly believe that reading alone is rarely enough to help us change our behavior. Most of

2024 Product Conference List

2024 Product Conference List

We are starting to pull together our list of 2024 product conferences. This list is by no means exhaustive. If you know of product conferences that are not on the list and you think they should be, please send an email to conferences@producttalk.org. We’ll also keep updating

Assumption Testing: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

Assumption Testing: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

A regular cadence of assumption testing helps product teams quickly determine which ideas will work and which ones won’t. It’s one of the highest value activities we can do. And sadly, most product teams don’t do any assumption testing at all. And those that do, don’t

Evaluating Solutions: The 5 Types of Assumptions that Underlie Our Ideas

Evaluating Solutions: The 5 Types of Assumptions that Underlie Our Ideas

Assumption testing is at the heart of what good continuous discovery teams do week over week. It’s how we evaluate which ideas will work and which won’t. But before we can test our assumptions, we have to identify them. That’s not always as easy as it sounds.

Ask Teresa: My Leaders Still Want Roadmaps with Timelines—What Should I Do?

Ask Teresa: My Leaders Still Want Roadmaps with Timelines—What Should I Do?

Many teams, like sales and marketing, have time-bound goals, like reaching $X in bookings or generating Y leads by a specific date. Product teams are also held to time-bound goals. Empowered product teams, for example, are asked to deliver outcomes each quarter. But sometimes companies take this too far. They

How Can Product Leaders Support Continuous Discovery?

How Can Product Leaders Support Continuous Discovery?

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. We discussed a few