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Making Continuous Discovery Work for You: The SPICEY Approach

Making Continuous Discovery Work for You: The SPICEY Approach

At the beginning of a new year, we’re often excited to make improvements and change our ways of working. “This is the year when I’m going to adopt continuous discovery,” you might be saying to yourself. “I’m going to transform my product team and our entire approach

Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

I recently spoke at the Y Oslo conference in Oslo, Norway. I was asked to give a ten-minute overview of my continuous discovery framework and then participated in a fireside chat where the host, Cecilie Smedstad, asked me to go deeper in a few areas. We covered how to manage

Product in Practice: How Passion.io Applies Continuous Discovery to the Employee Experience

Product in Practice: How Passion.io Applies Continuous Discovery to the Employee Experience

If you’ve been reading Product Talk for a while, you probably already know that the majority of the stories we share in the Product in Practice series focus on how product teams are adopting continuous discovery habits in their work. The details vary, but we generally speak with members

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

Product in Practice: Adopting the Discovery Habits is An Iterative Process

Product in Practice: Adopting the Discovery Habits is An Iterative Process

Continuous discovery is not a linear journey—as much as we might want it to be. Like a lot of learning, it often feels messy and chaotic. But if you stick with it, you may eventually find you can look back and see how much you’ve progressed. That’s

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

A Conversation with Petra Wille: My Approach to the Continuous Discovery Habits Community

A Conversation with Petra Wille: My Approach to the Continuous Discovery Habits Community

Reading is one of my favorite ways to spend my time. I’ve designed my business to allow plenty of time for reading books, articles, interviews, etc. As much as I love reading, I firmly believe that reading alone is rarely enough to help us change our behavior. Most of