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Melissa Suzuno

Product in Practice: All It Took Was One Product Trio to Inspire Change—The Hemnet Story

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 easily go through these activities on your own. But at the same time, continuous discovery

Product in Practice: Learning to Interview Continuously

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 community, or the Continuous Discovery Habits book—focuses on the various facets of continuous discovery. But it’

Bringing Order to Chaos: Using Opportunity Solution Trees in Everyday Life

Bringing Order to Chaos: Using Opportunity Solution Trees in Everyday Life

If you’re a product person, you’ve developed a set of skills that help you in your job. You know (or you’re in the process of learning) how to identify opportunities, consider different solutions, and identify and test your assumptions. And if you’re working within the continuous

Product Talk is Growing: Meet New Instructor Ellen Brandenberger

Product Talk is Growing: Meet New Instructor Ellen Brandenberger

Product Talk’s North Star metric is to increase the number of product trios who adopt a continuous discovery cadence to their work. This is what inspired Teresa to write the Continuous Discovery Habits book and shift Product Talk to a course-first business. And this outcome is also the reason

Product in Practice: One Product Manager’s Quest to Adopt Continuous Discovery at Her Company

Product in Practice: One Product Manager’s Quest to Adopt Continuous Discovery at Her Company

Adopting continuous discovery can feel like a big, audacious goal. If you’ve never spoken with a customer, how will you be able to set up interviews every single week? If you don’t currently work in a product trio at all, how will you be able to work and

Tools of the Trade: Using Personal Knowledge Management to Solve Problems and Boost Creativity

Tools of the Trade: Using Personal Knowledge Management to Solve Problems and Boost Creativity

The world of digital products is evolving quickly. Whether you’re trying to keep track of everything you learn about your customers during continuous discovery, keep tabs on the latest thought leadership and learnings from others in the industry, or keep on top of all the newest products on the

Product in Practice: Getting Engineers Involved in Brainstorming

Product in Practice: Getting Engineers Involved in Brainstorming

Getting a group together to generate ideas—an activity often referred to as “brainstorming”—doesn’t always go smoothly. In the past, Teresa has written about the major reasons why traditional brainstorming doesn’t work: social loafing (people tend not to work as hard in a group setting), conformity (people