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Inspiring Strong Product Leaders: A Conversation with Petra Wille

Inspiring Strong Product Leaders: A Conversation with Petra Wille

I first met Petra Wille, a fellow product coach, at Mind the Product and was immediately impressed with her work. While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. The people in these roles don’t always

Product in Practice: Iterating to an Actionable Outcome at tails.com

Product in Practice: Iterating to an Actionable Outcome at tails.com

Hello Product Talk readers, we’re excited to share the latest Product in Practice with you! For this story, we caught up with Sonja Martin, Product Manager at tails.com. Sonja shares how her cross-functional team has changed their approach to defining their desired outcome over time. Want to check

Opportunity Mapping: An Essential Skill for Driving Product Outcomes

Opportunity Mapping: An Essential Skill for Driving Product Outcomes

The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Continuous Discovery Habits. It’s the opening to my chapter on Opportunity Mapping. Read to the end for an exciting new announcement. “To maintain the state of doubt and to carry on systematic and protracted inquiry—these are the essentials of

Doing Discovery Well: How to Measure and Guide Your Team

Doing Discovery Well: How to Measure and Guide Your Team

How do you know that you are doing discovery well? If you want to improve your discovery process, what outcomes help you track your progress? I get asked these questions often. I like that teams are trying to take an outcome-focused mindset to their discovery practice. The good news is

Empower Product Teams with Product Outcomes, Not Business Outcomes

Empower Product Teams with Product Outcomes, Not Business Outcomes

Good discovery starts with a clear desired outcome. A well-defined outcome provides a focal point for the product team and serves as a guiding light for their discovery efforts. It helps the team quickly identify and conserve their time and energy for the initiatives that matter most. However, when we

Product in Practice: How 2-Way Door Decisions Helped Simply Business Learn Fast

Product in Practice: How 2-Way Door Decisions Helped Simply Business Learn Fast

Welcome to the latest installment of Product in Practice! For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions, and using the opportunity solution tree to guide

Working Remotely? 5 Ways to Help Your Product Team Thrive

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