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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.

Slowing Down: Choosing Not to Set Goals for 2023

Slowing Down: Choosing Not to Set Goals for 2023

Happy New Year! For the past several years, I’ve published a state of the business report as my initial blog post of the year. And this year will be no different. In this post, I’ll reflect on the past year and look at the year ahead. Let’s

Defining Product Outcomes: The 8 Most Common Mistakes You Should Avoid

Defining Product Outcomes: The 8 Most Common Mistakes You Should Avoid

I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk coach and instructor Hope Gurion to discuss some of the common mistakes we see teams make when it comes to defining outcomes. You can watch the video of our conversation or check out a lightly edited version of the transcript below. Full

Customer Interviews: How to Recruit, What to Ask, and How to Synthesize What You Learn

Customer Interviews: How to Recruit, What to Ask, and How to Synthesize What You Learn

Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. It’s simply the easiest, most sustainable way of learning about your customers and what they need. This knowledge gives teams a competitive advantage that compounds over time. Whether you are brand new to conducting customer

2023 Product Conference List

2023 Product Conference List

We are starting to pull together our list of 2023 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

Discovery Is Messy: How Do We Keep Track of All That We Are Learning?

Discovery Is Messy: How Do We Keep Track of All That We Are Learning?

As you start to adopt the continuous discovery habits, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by how much stuff you generate. What do I mean by “stuff”? Opportunity solution trees, experience maps, interview snapshots, interview notes and recordings, story maps, assumption maps, assumption test plans, and results. Inevitably, you might

Tell Us About Your Team: Take the Continuous Discovery Habits Benchmark Survey

Tell Us About Your Team: Take the Continuous Discovery Habits Benchmark Survey

For years, I’ve shared that Product Talk’s primary outcome is to increase the number of product teams who adopt a continuous cadence to their discovery work. This has been our North Star metric. It has guided our work. It inspired me to write my book. It’s what

Ask Teresa: What if Your Buyers Aren’t Your Users?

Ask Teresa: What if Your Buyers Aren’t Your Users?

At its core, product discovery is a simple concept. By talking to our customers regularly, we can collect insights into their unique problems, needs, and desires (or what I often refer to as “opportunities”). We then use these insights to guide the products we build. However, many people worry that