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Product in Practice: Continuous Discovery Fuels Innovation at Sauce Labs

Product in Practice: Continuous Discovery Fuels Innovation at Sauce Labs

Can a single course change your career trajectory? For Mike Donovan, Senior Vice President of Product at Sauce Labs, the answer to that question is a resounding yes. Can a single course change your career trajectory? For Mike Donovan, Senior Vice President of Product at Sauce Labs, the answer to

Product in Practice: Creating Opportunities for Deliberate Practice at BBC Maestro

Product in Practice: Creating Opportunities for Deliberate Practice at BBC Maestro

How often have you read a book or article and been inspired to take action on it? And how often have you actually taken action on it? Chances are there’s a big gap between how inspired you feel and which concrete actions you end up taking. If that’s

Ask Teresa (and the Community): What Do You Do With Stakeholder Feature Requests?

Ask Teresa (and the Community): What Do You Do With Stakeholder Feature Requests?

Let’s say you’ve got a good thing going with continuous discovery. You’re creating a regular habit of talking to customers, you’re identifying opportunities and assumptions and building out your opportunity solution tree and starting to run small tests to explore different ideas. Everything is going great

Product in Practice: Iterating on Outcomes with Limited Data

Product in Practice: Iterating on Outcomes with Limited Data

We often hear from people that building an opportunity solution tree is hard work. And perhaps one of the most challenging parts of building opportunity solution trees is defining the outcome that you put at the top. As a quick reminder, your outcome should be something the product team is

Opportunity Solution Trees: Visualize Your Discovery to Stay Aligned and Drive Outcomes

Opportunity Solution Trees: Visualize Your Discovery to Stay Aligned and Drive Outcomes

Opportunity solution trees help product teams chart the best path to their desired outcome. They keep the team aligned as they manage the messy cycles of continuous discovery. In this article, we’ll cover what an opportunity solution tree is, the benefits of using one, how to create one, and

The Power of Opportunity Solution Trees: 7 Key Benefits Revealed

The Power of Opportunity Solution Trees: 7 Key Benefits Revealed

Opportunity solution trees are a simple way of visually representing the paths you might take to reach a desired outcome. The root of the tree is your desired outcome—the business need that reflects how your team can create business value. Next is the opportunity space. These are the customer

No Time for Discovery? Here’s How to Fix It.

No Time for Discovery? Here’s How to Fix It.

It’s true that discovery takes time. Interviewing customers, building opportunity solution trees, running assumption tests—these are all activities that take your attention away from delivery. But I’m also a firm believer that discovery doesn’t come at the expense of delivery. Both activities should happen in tandem