Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

A big part of Teeba’s process involved putting her product skills to use throughout the job search, both in terms of identifying product-led companies and in terms of mapping out business and product outcomes for companies where she was interviewing. Meet our continuous discovery champion, Teeba Alkhudairi.

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The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2025

At our latest TPG Live roundtable, we brought together four leading voices in product coaching, discovery, and strategy. Here are the key takeaways organized by theme, focusing on what product teams need to understand and act on now. Discovery is not just a PM function. It works best when teams learn together.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Multiscreen Web Design”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Product Talk

AUGUST 4, 2021

It won’t surprise you to hear that I use the same continuous discovery habits that I wrote about in my book to run my business. My primary objective across my business is to increase the number of product trios who adopt a continuous cadence to their discovery work. Turning My Content Into a Product. That was a mistake.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Opportunity solution trees are a simple way of visually representing the paths you might take to reach a desired outcome. Below the opportunity space is the solution space. This is where we’ll visually depict the solutions we are exploring. Below the solution space are assumption tests.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What is Product Discovery? Product discovery describes the activities required to determine if and why a product should be developed and offered. This increases the chances of creating a product that users actually want and need and achieving product success. What makes the product stand out?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Productside

JUNE 17, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training How Product Management Strategy Turns Struggles into Structure We’ve worked with hundreds of teams stuck in reactive delivery cycles, constantly shipping features but never sure if they’re actually moving the needle. It needed a rethink of its product management strategy.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Guest Post by: Alex Hsu (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Addi Regev]. A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. Research article. Why do I need a framework? Enough talking. Show me the money.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One of the primary benefits of working in a product trio is we reduce the hand-offs between functional roles. It’s no wonder we end up with software that doesn’t work for our customers. Good discovery establishes a direct communication line between the team who is building the product and the customer. Tweet This.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

Businesses and individuals are increasingly making SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) applications their choice software platform for their business needs. The increasing popularity of cloud computing indicates that the importance of SaaS will only increase in the future. SaaS products already have these integrations.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 8, 2018

We are teaching business leaders and change agents how to prototype their way to viable solutions. In this context, solutions aren’t product solutions, but rather internal programs and processes that effect change within the organization. We can’t get very far in discovery if we don’t know who our audience is.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We are starting to pull together our list of 2025 product conferences. If you know of product conferences that are not on the list and you think they should be, please send an email to conferences@producttalk.org. Are you looking for the 2024 Product Conferences list? This list is by no means exhaustive. Find it here.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Last week, I was in Cleveland for the Industry Product Conference. I spoke about the three mindsets that help a team find success as a continuous discovery team. Becoming a successful discovery team. Product management is changing. Product managers are evolving from focusing on outputs to outcomes. Tweet This.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

Guest Post by: Magdaline Derosena (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Andrew Hsu]. I discovered that I must research and understand the entire system and process, problem solve with my team, and share lessons learned. After researching the problem with my team, we came up with a solution.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Otherwise, you might ask the wrong people for feedback on the increments and hence draw the wrong conclusions. But don’t stop there.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Hi there, Product Talk readers! Here at Product Talk, we’re excited about showcasing what good product management looks like. That’s why we recently launched the Product in Practice series , where we’re highlighting excellent work that different product teams are doing. It’s me, Melissa. I’m Teresa’s blog editor.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

How can you balance functionality with aesthetics, ensuring your app is both intuitive and visually appealing? Lets discuss why educational app design is essential and what practices you can follow to deliver a smooth experience to your students. Also, pick the product type that suits your target audience and fits into the marketniche.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 10, 2024

” NotebookLM started as a 20% project and has grown into a product that’s spreading across social media and has a Discord server with over 60,000 users. ” NotebookLM started as a 20% project and has grown into a product that’s spreading across social media and has a Discord server with over 60,000 users.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

Thats what product development feels like in most organizations.” Trying to build the right thing without a solid discovery framework is like setting off on a road trip without a map or destination. By conducting product discovery, teams can validate ideas, gather feedback, and make informed decisions about product development.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The same is true in software. We are all in a battle, multiple battles in fact, with a lot at stake: whether it’s the fate of the company we work for or for the product that we build. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software.

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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

Imagine launching a product feature that no one uses. Because product discovery was skipped … or done poorly. Product discovery process is the foundation of building successful products. Yet, many teams rush into development without properly testing ideas, leading to wasted effort and failed launches.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

I've been reflecting on the last decade in Product Management. Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy."

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

A product manager just stopped by the desk of the designer on a lazy Thursday afternoon. I’ve been in this situation while I worked with various product teams as a designer. Designers and UX researchers will be motivated if you give them important product issues to solve. Designers can help product people a lot.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? The choice is tough because there’s no single tool that covers all use cases. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. Free trial?

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

What product managers need to know about the Targeted Innovation Process Watch on YouTube TLDR The Targeted Innovation Process is a practical framework that helps product managers drive innovation in their organizations. It’s what helps create products that customers love and keeps companies successful in the long run.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

– to come back on to the podcast and chat about how to make sure that, despite everything that’s going on, you continue to incorporate discovery into your practice. Then there’s the second piece of it: What’s the part of Discovery that’s going to stay stable over time? Customer Discovery.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 7, 2025

In this episode of “Product Excellence: Insights from Award-Winning Leaders | Strategies for Success,” Maya Brooks discusses the balance between creating revenue-focused and socially impactful products. She explains how flexibility in product design supports entrepreneurs through both good times and challenges.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2018

In today’s data-driven world, the idea of using research to build great tech companies has gone from being buzzworthy to expected. User testing is now a must-do, thanks to the lean build-measure-learn mantra that has inspired modern product development. Role of exploratory research in product development.

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Mind the Product

JULY 11, 2019

What’s the fundamental difference between product discovery and delivery or execution? The degree of uncertainty should determine whether you need to run product discovery or whether you can begin to deliver a solution to your customer. The degree of uncertainty. Let’s walk through three hypothetical scenarios.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

When you suggest a Product Discovery as a way to help get better results it gets rejected. This article is a way to answer the question: “Why do Product Discovery?” Product Discovery is relatively cheap and fast compared to Product Delivery (building the product or feature).

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash Market research and user experience research (UXR) are often confused as being the same thing, but they are actually distinct fields with their own goals and methods. To choose the appropriate research method for the business, it’s important to clarify the problem we are trying to solve.

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