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Ask the Community: Tracking Opportunities Not Related to Your Outcome

Ask the Community: Tracking Opportunities Not Related to Your Outcome

When you conduct story-based interviews every week, you quickly begin to collect a range of opportunities. And while some of these opportunities might be related to your current outcome, that’s not always the case. It can be hard to know what to do when this happens. You might be

Ask the Community: What Do You Do When You Inherit a Giant Product Backlog?

Ask the Community: What Do You Do When You Inherit a Giant Product Backlog?

Old product backlogs can be the place where ideas go to die. But they can also be a treasure trove of feedback from your customers. And in some cases, they might be a mix of both. The trouble is, you might not know until you spend some time reviewing your

Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams, the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own. Instead, they hand

Ask the Community: What’s a Mistake You Made Early in Your Continuous Discovery Journey?

Ask the Community: What’s a Mistake You Made Early in Your Continuous Discovery Journey?

You’ll often hear Teresa say that there’s no single right way to do continuous discovery. Something she might not say as often (that’s just as true) is that there’s no single wrong way to do discovery, either. Because discovery involves changing the way you work on

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