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Organizational Change

Ask Teresa: My Leaders Still Want Roadmaps with Timelines—What Should I Do?

Ask Teresa: My Leaders Still Want Roadmaps with Timelines—What Should I Do?

Many teams, like sales and marketing, have time-bound goals, like reaching $X in bookings or generating Y leads by a specific date. Product teams are also held to time-bound goals. Empowered product teams, for example, are asked to deliver outcomes each quarter. But sometimes companies take this too far. They

Product in Practice: All It Took Was One Product Trio to Inspire Change—The Hemnet Story

Product in Practice: All It Took Was One Product Trio to Inspire Change—The Hemnet Story

You don’t necessarily need anyone’s permission to get started with continuous discovery. In fact, some steps—like story mapping and identifying your assumptions—don’t even require anyone else to participate. You can easily go through these activities on your own. But at the same time, continuous discovery

How Can Product Leaders Support Continuous Discovery?

How Can Product Leaders Support Continuous Discovery?

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. We discussed a few

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

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