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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.

User Stories Aren't As Simple As They Seem

In April, I wrote User Stories Are Better Than PRDs. To date, it's been one of my most popular posts. It covers the basic format of user stories: As a user role, I'm able to do some functionality, for some explicit benefit. It looks at each

So You Want To Be A Product Manager

Overwhelmingly, the top product-related question I see on Quora, LinkedIn, and Twitter is how do you become a product manager. Product managers come from all walks of life. There is no single path to your first product role. Seeing this question so often led me to write quite a few

The Most Common Mistakes People Make In Product Manager Interviews

This post is part of the So You Want To Be a Product Manager series. There are a ton of great articles about what you might get asked in a product manager interview. I refer you here, here, and here. I've also written about what I always ask

Dear Product Manager, Nobody Is Looking At Your Resume

This post is part of the So You Want To Be a Product Manager series. Now that you have narrowed down a target list of companies, let's focus on how to get the attention of the hiring manager. In a perfect world, you would apply for a job,

You'll Never Be a Product Manager There: Choosing The Right Companies

This post is part of the So You Want To Be a Product Manager series. When we talked with Colin Murphy a couple of weeks ago, he hit on a key element of a successful job search. Colin, looking for his first product role, said, "I realized early on

To Portfolio Or Not To Portfolio

This post is part of the So You Want To Be a Product Manager series. Most product and design job requirements ask for a portfolio. What do you do if you don't have one? I'm not a big fan of public portfolios. They lead to poor

Moving From User Experience to Product With Laura Klein

This post is part of the So You Want To Be a Product Manager series. We've heard from Oded and Colin who had some product experience from the context of account management type roles. We've heard from Zaz who switched to product from engineering. Today, we