Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2017

I coach each team—a product manager, a design lead, and a tech lead—for three months, working with them virtually week over week. conducting customer interviews, running sound product experiments, building rapid prototypes) and critical thinking skills to connect their research activities to their product decisions.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

I advocate for constant contact with your customers. I encourage product managers to immerse themselves in their customer’s world until they feel like they are drowning in data. It’s only then that we can develop meaningful products. For the past two years, product managers have been my customers.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 6, 2023

And while that truism could be applied equally to recipes, sports analysis, or politics, we’re focusing here on product management websites. It turns out a lot of product folks like to share their tips and wisdom on the Internet. Product Talk. Silicon Valley Product Group. So many websites and so little time.

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Product Talk

JULY 12, 2017

It’s easy to think you already do continuous product discovery. They’ve read the industry books, they attend the popular product conferences , and they follow all the leading blogs. Most product teams are starting to integrate discovery practices into their product development process. My talk at Front 2017.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

For those of you following along, I’ve been conducting interviews to understand the life of a product manager. If you need to catch up, you can see my initial call for participants here and my breakdown of how I am selecting participants here. I have often recommended that people not record their interviews.

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Userpilot

APRIL 1, 2022

What does the SaaS product localization process involve? How can product managers prepare products for expansion into other markets? How do you develop and implement a SaaS localization strategy? Product localization makes the product accessible to users in foreign markets with different languages and cultures.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Many entrepreneurs and product managers write about the skills they brought to the table and those they learned along the way. Few talk about the silent hero that boosts them to the elite level: consuming the written word. As a successful product manager reading is a must. Product managers for the digital world.

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Revulytics

JULY 1, 2019

Revulytics sponsors a series of Product Management Today webinars featuring innovative ideas from top software product management thought leaders. In these blog posts, we ask the presenters to share their insights - we encourage you to watch the full on-demand webinars for even more details. I preach continuous discovery.

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Product Talk

APRIL 19, 2023

The world of digital products is evolving quickly. Whether you’re trying to keep track of everything you learn about your customers during continuous discovery , keep tabs on the latest thought leadership and learnings from others in the industry, or keep on top of all the newest products on the market, you can quickly get overwhelmed.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

Teresa Torres, ProductTalk. Teresa Torres is a Product Coach at ProductTalk.org advocating strong critical thinking practices to ensure there is a strong connection between what teams are learning in their research with the product outcomes that they are making. But if we make all the output decisions (e.g.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 22, 2022

What’s product ideation? How to implement it in your SaaS? In the article, we look at the stages of the product ideation process and popular ideation techniques a product manager can apply. Successful product ideation allows teams to understand user needs better and develop innovative solutions that address these needs.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

So I’m going to scratch the surface in this blog post. I’ve been coaching product teams for three years on modern product discovery and this single change has had a bigger impact on how teams work than everything else I do with them combined. I kept asking myself, how do I decide what comes next?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 27, 2019

There is no shortage of prominent male product leaders populating social media with their wisdom. But well-rounded product managers should be hearing from a diverse chorus of voices. No two product managers are the same. Who is she: She’s a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and the former Head of Product, Growth at Slack.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. Meet your co-presenters, product discovery coaches Teresa Torres and Hope Gurion. Teresa Torres: Let’s start with some introductions. Hope Gurion: Thanks, Teresa.

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. Teresa Torres : Hi, everybody. Welcome to “Why There’s No Single ‘Right’ Way to Do Product Discovery.” I am Teresa Torres. Want to read Part 1 of the series?

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. In this third and final conversation in the series, we discussed two core principles of continuous discovery : why it’s essential to set up compare and contrast decisions and surface and test assumptions.

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Product Talk

MARCH 14, 2018

One of my favorite parts of Mind the Product London this past fall was meeting a product manager and a designer who I had coached in the prior year. They had so much they wanted to share about how their work had changed. They described how much time they were spending with customers and what impact it was having on their work.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What will be the biggest Product Trends in 2022? Interestingly – they seem completely different from the product trends we’ve identified for 2021 – including Product Led Growth , the rise of a Growth Product Management Role, chatbots, or gamification. Will we see a rise of AI-powered product personalization ?

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