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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 18,000 people product discovery skills and is the author of Continuous Discovery Habits.

How Much Time Should You Spend in Product Discovery?

How Much Time Should You Spend in Product Discovery?

I get asked all the time, “How much time should we spend in discovery?” I have two problems with this question. First, it assumes you do discovery first and then delivery second, which is not true. You should be discovering and delivering all the time. Second, it implies that there

What a Good Continuous Discovery Team Looks Like [Case Study]

What a Good Continuous Discovery Team Looks Like [Case Study]

One of my favorite parts of Mind the Product London this past fall was meeting a product manager and a designer who I had coached in the prior year. We met for afternoon tea and to my surprise they gushed about our time working together. They had so much they

Stop Validating & Start Co-Creating

Stop Validating & Start Co-Creating

Meet Sally and Pam. Sally is a product manager, Pam a user experience designer, and they are working on a new mobile app. They’ve conducted customer interviews, defined their MVP, and are now working through the initial designs. Even though their MVP will only include a fraction of their

4 Powerful Ways to Use Rapid Prototyping to Drive Product Success

4 Powerful Ways to Use Rapid Prototyping to Drive Product Success

When you hear the term “rapid prototyping,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? For most of us who work with digital products, we tend to think of wireframes or mockups. We equate prototyping with a quick way to get user feedback on our designs. But when we

2018 Product Conferences

2018 Product Conferences

We are starting to pull together our 2018 conference list. This list is by no means exhaustive. If you know of a product conference that is not on the list and you think it should be, please feel free to recommend it in the comments or send an email to

This Keystone Habit Will Fuel the Rest of Your Continuous Discovery Habits

This Keystone Habit Will Fuel the Rest of Your Continuous Discovery Habits

I love working as a discovery coach. I work with dozens of teams at several companies spanning many industries. I coach each team—a product manager, a design lead, and a tech lead—for three months, working with them virtually week over week. During that time, we focus on developing

How Compare and Contrast Decisions Lead to Better Product Outcomes

How Compare and Contrast Decisions Lead to Better Product Outcomes

This past week I was in London speaking at Mind the Product. As usual, the Mind the Product team hosted a phenomenal event. You can watch the video here: Full Transcript This transcript is the script of the talk as it was written. It is not word-for-word the talk as