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Product in Practice: Bringing the Discovery Habits to WebMD

Product in Practice: Bringing the Discovery Habits to WebMD

The larger and more complex your company is, the more challenging it can be to introduce continuous discovery. It’s not just about training people to conduct interviews, use opportunity solution trees, or test assumptions—though those are all important activities—it’s also about convincing them of the value

Product in Practice: Making Customer Interviewing a Habit in an Early-Stage Startup

Product in Practice: Making Customer Interviewing a Habit in an Early-Stage Startup

Founders have all sorts of reasons for starting companies. Sometimes it’s because they’ve personally experienced a pain point and want to address it. Sometimes they’re dissatisfied with what’s available on the market and think they can do better. And sometimes it’s because they have an

Product in Practice: Continuous Discovery Fuels Innovation at Sauce Labs

Product in Practice: Continuous Discovery Fuels Innovation at Sauce Labs

Can a single course change your career trajectory? For Mike Donovan, Senior Vice President of Product at Sauce Labs, the answer to that question is a resounding yes. Can a single course change your career trajectory? For Mike Donovan, Senior Vice President of Product at Sauce Labs, the answer to

Product in Practice: Creating Opportunities for Deliberate Practice at BBC Maestro

Product in Practice: Creating Opportunities for Deliberate Practice at BBC Maestro

How often have you read a book or article and been inspired to take action on it? And how often have you actually taken action on it? Chances are there’s a big gap between how inspired you feel and which concrete actions you end up taking. If that’s

Product in Practice: Stepping Into Your First Product Leadership Role—What to Expect

Product in Practice: Stepping Into Your First Product Leadership Role—What to Expect

Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. As an individual contributor, you’re focusing on your own projects and progress, but as a leader you are now responsible for the team (or teams) that report up to you. You may find yourself less involved in the

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

Product in Practice: Learning to Interview Continuously

Product in Practice: Learning to Interview Continuously

It’s no secret that Product Talk is built on the foundation of continuous discovery. Yes, all of the content we create—whether it’s this blog, the Product Talk Academy courses, the community, or the Continuous Discovery Habits book—focuses on the various facets of continuous discovery. But it’