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, go through my training, or watch one of my talks, they naturally wonder about applying the concepts of continuous discovery to their own work. They consider the ideas in the […]
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 designs, and then the requirements and […]
Product in Practice: Finding the Best Way to Communicate with Different Stakeholders
Continuous discovery is more of a journey than a destination. You can pick up the habits and fold them into your daily practice, but there will always be room for improvement. Plus, your work environment is always changing, so you’ll constantly need to adapt to your current settings and stakeholders. If your sales team isn’t […]
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 trio? Does a product trio exclude everyone […]
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 product trios really work? What do they […]
Working Remotely? 5 Ways to Help Your Product Team Thrive
Product teams should be co-located. This is an often-repeated “truth” in our industry. Today, in response to COVID-19, many companies are instituting mandatory work-from-home policies. This is making co-location impossible for many teams. Thankfully, this “truth” was already on its way to being retired. In fact, it was never true for many companies. We have […]
Why Engineers Should Participate in Discovery
Are you inviting your engineers to participate in discovery with you? If yes, do you get pushback from them? Does your organization prefer that your engineers only write code? Marty Cagan, in Inspired, argues, “If you’re just using your engineers to code, you’re only getting about half their value.” I couldn’t agree more. But too […]
The Best Continuous Discovery Teams Cultivate These Mindsets
Last week, I was in Cleveland for the Industry Product Conference. I spoke about the three mindsets that help a team find success as a continuous discovery team. You can view the video or read my slides and the full script below. Enjoy! Full Script The following script may deviate from what you see in […]
