Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. As an individual contributor, you’re focusing on your own projects and progress, but as a leader you are now […]
Product in Practice: All It Took Was One Product Trio to Inspire Change—The Hemnet Story
You don’t necessarily need anyone’s permission to get started with continuous discovery. In fact, some steps—like story mapping and identifying your assumptions—don’t even require anyone else to participate. You can […]
Product in Practice: Learning to Interview Continuously
It’s no secret that Product Talk is built on the foundation of continuous discovery. Yes, all of the content we create—whether it’s this blog, the Product Talk Academy courses, the […]
Product in Practice: One Product Manager’s Quest to Adopt Continuous Discovery at Her Company
Adopting continuous discovery can feel like a big, audacious goal. If you’ve never spoken with a customer, how will you be able to set up interviews every single week? If […]
Product in Practice: Getting Engineers Involved in Brainstorming
Getting a group together to generate ideas—an activity often referred to as “brainstorming”—doesn’t always go smoothly. Getting a group together to generate ideas—an activity often referred to as “brainstorming”—doesn’t always […]
Product in Practice: Building to Learn at Singularity Creations
Saying no is a huge part of excelling in your product practice. If you say yes to every request that comes your way—whether from customers, salespeople, or executives—you can quickly […]
Product in Practice: Opportunity Mapping Led to a 20% Lift in LTV at Grailed
What do your customers care about? This seems like a simple enough question, but many product teams struggle to answer it honestly. Often the first instinct is to frame an […]
Product in Practice: Mapping Opportunities at trivago
A lot of product teams claim to be focused on their users. They might even have regular steps in their processes that remind them to put their users’ needs first. […]