Teresa Torres

Discovering Solutions: Quickly Determine Which Ideas Will Work (And Which Won’t)

Visualizing discovery work with an opportunity solution tree has been a game-changer for both me and the teams that I work with. It’s a simple visual that packs a lot of power. At the top, we start with a clear outcome. This sets the scope for our discovery.

Ask Teresa: How Do You Select Customers for Customer Interviews?

Welcome to the next installment of Ask Teresa, the column where I address common questions about continuous discovery. If you’d like to see the other posts in this series, you can find them here. Creating frequent touch points with customers is one of the core tenets of continuous discovery.

Ask Teresa: Who’s Responsible for What in the Product Trio?

As a product discovery coach, I get asked a lot of questions. This makes complete sense—as people read my book, take one of my courses, or watch one of my talks, they naturally wonder about applying the concepts of continuous discovery to their own work. They consider the ideas

Scaling Impact: A Look at the Year Ahead (2022)

Happy New Year! I’m excited for 2022. Every December, I take several weeks to reflect on the ending year and to look forward to the year ahead. For the past few years, I’ve shared my reflection and plans in the first post of the year. This year is

Discovery Hand-Offs Kill Momentum: Here’s What to Do Instead

One of the primary benefits of working in a product trio is we reduce the hand-offs between functional roles. In the old way of working, a business stakeholder communicated a need to a product manager, the product manager wrote requirements, handed them off to a designer, who then created

2022 Product Conference List

We are starting to pull together our list of 2022 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

Representing Customer Segments on Your Opportunity Solution Tree (Teresa’s Take)

There is no single right way to do continuous discovery. I can’t emphasize this enough. Recently, Hope Gurion walked through three scenarios where she argued teams might benefit from including customer segments on their opportunity solution trees. In that post, she wrote: Opportunities are written as first-person statements

Product Discovery Basics: Everything You Need to Know

Product discovery is becoming a trendy topic in the world of digital products. Why? What is it? And what do you need to know about it? I’ve got you covered. This article will cover the ins and outs of product discovery. What is Product Discovery? We typically define product

Writing a Book: How Continuous Discovery Helped Me Write a Better Book

It won’t surprise you to hear that I use the same continuous discovery habits that I wrote about in my book to run my business. My primary objective across my business is to increase the number of product trios who adopt a continuous cadence to their discovery work. When

Core Concept: Getting Engineers to Embrace the Product Trio

The Core Concepts series addresses common questions and concerns within the world of continuous product discovery. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at common questions about the product trio. Did you miss the previous posts in this series? You can find them all here. Today’s post

Core Concept: The Role of User Research in a Continuous Discovery World

Over the past several weeks, we’ve been exploring what a product trio is, how decision-making works in product trios, and why more roles aren’t included. Today, we are going to tackle how user researchers fit into this puzzle. You can watch the short video or read a

Core Concept: What Roles are Represented in a Product Trio?

In this short video, I address the most common question I’ve received since releasing my book Continuous Discovery Habits: Why didn’t you include my role in the product trio? You can watch the video or read a lightly edited transcript below. Who should you include in your product

Core Concept: Collaborative Decision-Making in a Product Trio

In this short video, I walk through what decision-making looks like in a product trio. If you missed the first video in this series, be sure to check that out first: What’s a product trio? You can watch the video or read a lightly edited transcript below. Do

Continuous Discovery Habits (the Book) is Finally Here!

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

Core Concept: The Product Trio

One of my goals for 2021 is to create short explainer videos for key concepts related to continuous discovery. This is my first one. I'd love to hear what you think. Is this helpful? Are there other core concepts you’d like to see me explore? You can

Rethinking Product Discovery with Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Mind

Back in March, I spoke at ProductCamp Cascadia (an online conference hosted by ProductCamp Portland, ProductCamp Seattle, and ProductCamp Vancouver) exploring the topic of design justice. I refined the talk and gave it again yesterday at IndustryConf. You can either watch the recording above or read an edited transcript below.

Why There’s No Single “Right” Way to Do Discovery: Part 3

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. Want to read the previous parts of the series? Find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. In this third and final conversation in

Why There’s No Single “Right” Way to Do Discovery: Part 2

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. Want to read Part 1 of the series? Find it here. In this second conversation in the series, we discussed two core principles of

Why There’s No Single “Right” Way to Do Discovery: Part 1

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. In this first conversation in the series, we discussed three guiding principles of continuous discovery: building a collaborative decision-making model with the product

A Look at the Year Ahead: The Product Talk Roadmap (With a Book Update)

Happy New Year! I am excited to kick off 2021. For the past couple of years, I've used my January blog post to give an update on my plans for the year ahead and this year will be no different. You can find previous years’ posts here: 2019

2021 Product Conferences

We are starting to pull together our list of 2021 product conferences. A lot has changed in the world since we last published our 2020 product conferences list. Due to COVID-19, many of the events on our list had to shift to virtual events. We expect the same will

Product Managers and Product Owners: What’s the Difference?

For this month’s Product Talk post, I recorded a video where I consider the difference between product managers and product owners. You can watch the video or read an edited version of the transcript below. I want to talk about product managers and product owners. This is a topic

Inspiring Strong Product Leaders: A Conversation with Petra Wille

I first met Petra Wille, a fellow product coach, at Mind the Product and was immediately impressed with her work. While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. The people in these roles don’t always

Opportunity Mapping: An Essential Skill for Driving Product Outcomes

The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Continuous Discovery Habits. It’s the opening to my chapter on Opportunity Mapping. Read to the end for an exciting new announcement. “To maintain the state of doubt and to carry on systematic and protracted inquiry—these are the essentials of

Doing Discovery Well: How to Measure and Guide Your Team

How do you know that you are doing discovery well? If you want to improve your discovery process, what outcomes help you track your progress? I get asked these questions often. I like that teams are trying to take an outcome-focused mindset to their discovery practice. The good news