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Everyone Can Do Continuous Discovery—Even You! Here’s How

Everyone Can Do Continuous Discovery—Even You! Here’s How

One of the most common responses I get when I talk about continuous discovery is: “That would never work in my organization.” But after working with thousands of product people and organizations of all kinds, I can tell you that everyone is capable of making progress on their continuous discovery

Bringing Order to Chaos: Using Opportunity Solution Trees in Everyday Life

Bringing Order to Chaos: Using Opportunity Solution Trees in Everyday Life

If you’re a product person, you’ve developed a set of skills that help you in your job. You know (or you’re in the process of learning) how to identify opportunities, consider different solutions, and identify and test your assumptions. And if you’re working within the continuous

Product Talk is Growing: Meet New Instructor Ellen Brandenberger

Product Talk is Growing: Meet New Instructor Ellen Brandenberger

Product Talk’s North Star metric is to increase the number of product trios who adopt a continuous discovery cadence to their work. This is what inspired Teresa to write the Continuous Discovery Habits book and shift Product Talk to a course-first business. And this outcome is also the reason

Product in Practice: One Product Manager’s Quest to Adopt Continuous Discovery at Her Company

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 you don’t currently work in a product trio at all, how will you be able to work and

Share the Love: Be a Champion for Continuous Discovery

Share the Love: Be a Champion for Continuous Discovery

I’m hearing more and more about a very simple but challenging problem. It might sound familiar. You’re an individual contributor at your company. You picked up a copy of Continuous Discovery Habits and loved it. You want to start working this way. But how do you convince your

Leading the Change: How Ellen Juhlin Introduced Discovery Habits at Orion Labs

Leading the Change: How Ellen Juhlin Introduced Discovery Habits at Orion Labs

For many product teams, continuous discovery is a brand-new way of working. It involves strengthening your understanding of business outcomes, fostering collaboration in product trios, and cultivating many other habits like conducting regular story-based interviews, mapping opportunities on the opportunity solution tree, and identifying and testing assumptions. While you might

Ask Teresa: How Can You Test a Customer’s Willingness to Pay?

Ask Teresa: How Can You Test a Customer’s Willingness to Pay?

I recently read Monetizing Innovation by Madhavan Ramanujam and Georg Tacke. Overall, I can recommend this book, but with one major caveat. In the book, the authors recommend that for any new product idea, we need to consider the monetization potential from the very beginning. This I agree with. However,