Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. As an individual contributor, you’re focusing on your own projects and progress, but as a leader you are now […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Tools of the Trade: Visualizing Discovery with Opportunity Solution Trees
The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to […]
Product in Practice: All It Took Was One Product Trio to Inspire Change—The Hemnet Story
You don’t necessarily need anyone’s permission to get started with continuous discovery. In fact, some steps—like story mapping and identifying your assumptions—don’t even require anyone else to participate. You can […]
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 […]
Product in Practice: Learning to Interview Continuously
It’s no secret that Product Talk is built on the foundation of continuous discovery. Yes, all of the content we create—whether it’s this blog, the Product Talk Academy courses, the […]
