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Product Trios

Product in Practice: Getting Engineers Involved in Brainstorming

Product in Practice: Getting Engineers Involved in Brainstorming

Getting a group together to generate ideas—an activity often referred to as “brainstorming”—doesn’t always go smoothly. In the past, Teresa has written about the major reasons why traditional brainstorming doesn’t work: social loafing (people tend not to work as hard in a group setting), conformity (people

Insights from the CDH Benchmark Survey: Measuring Product and Team Performance

Insights from the CDH Benchmark Survey: Measuring Product and Team Performance

For years, I’ve shared that Product Talk’s outcome is to increase the number of teams who adopt the continuous discovery habits that I outlined in my book. The challenge with this outcome is that it’s hard to measure. It’s directionally correct, but without a clear sense

Discovery Is Messy: How Do We Keep Track of All That We Are Learning?

Discovery Is Messy: How Do We Keep Track of All That We Are Learning?

As you start to adopt the continuous discovery habits, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by how much stuff you generate. What do I mean by “stuff”? Opportunity solution trees, experience maps, interview snapshots, interview notes and recordings, story maps, assumption maps, assumption test plans, and results. Inevitably, you might

Ask Teresa: Who’s Responsible for What in the Product Trio?

Ask Teresa: Who’s Responsible for What in the Product Trio?

As a product discovery coach, I get asked a lot of questions. This makes complete sense—as people read my book, take one of my courses, go through my training, or watch one of my talks, they naturally wonder about applying the concepts of continuous discovery to their own work.

Discovery Hand-Offs Kill Momentum: Here’s What to Do Instead

Discovery Hand-Offs Kill Momentum: Here’s What to Do Instead

One of the primary benefits of working in a product trio is we reduce the hand-offs between functional roles. In the old way of working, a business stakeholder communicated a need to a product manager, the product manager wrote requirements, handed them off to a designer, who then created designs,

Core Concept: Getting Engineers to Embrace the Product Trio

Core Concept: Getting Engineers to Embrace the Product Trio

The Core Concepts series addresses common questions and concerns within the world of continuous product discovery. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at common questions about the product trio. Did you miss the previous posts in this series? You can find them all here. Today’s post

Core Concept: The Role of User Research in a Continuous Discovery World

Core Concept: The Role of User Research in a Continuous Discovery World

Over the past several weeks, we’ve been exploring what a product trio is, how decision-making works in product trios, and why more roles aren’t included. Today, we are going to tackle how user researchers fit into this puzzle. You can watch the short video or read a lightly