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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 I Use December to Super-Charge My Coming Year

December is one of my favorite times of year. I do my best to reduce my client load so I can spend about 50% of my time looking back on the past year and looking forward to the next year. I assess how the year went asking, what went well,

The Next Product Talk Experiment

It’s Thanksgiving week here in the United States so I’m going to keep this short and sweet. I’m trying a new experiment. I hear often from product managers that they don’t know what coaching is. Coaching isn’t a common model in the product world. Most

Be Curious, Not Critical

Be Curious, Not Critical

“It’s horrible!” I was mortified. That was the feedback I received in a client meeting where we were reviewing one of my designs. The client continued, “We have a perfectly good home page, why don’t we just use that.” I was confused. We weren’t redesigning the home

How to Choose Your Next Experiments

“I think we should use folders.” “I think we should use tags.” “I know. Let’s test them both.” Does this sound familiar? I bet it does. By far the most common mistake teams make when they are new to Lean Startup methodologies is they fall into the trap of

Happy Birthday, Product Talk - Thank You!

I was sitting in my doctor’s office after a harrowing couple of weeks. I can remember it like it was yesterday. On the prior Sunday, I had passed out in the shower. I thought I had the flu. I could barely crawl from the bathroom to my bed. It

Stop Wishing and Start Doing

Stop Wishing and Start Doing

"I wish my leadership team would pick one strategy." "I wish my engineering team would contribute ideas to our project." "I wish our user experience team would ask for my input earlier." "I wish our sales team would stop saying yes to feature

You Don’t Want to Miss Out on This

It’s easy to have ideas. You could rattle off ten right now. I bet you hear dozens from across your organization every week. This isn’t the hard part of your job. The hard part is putting those ideas into context. It’s deciding which ideas to pursue. It’