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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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. Click here.).

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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. Introduction: What Is Product Discovery?

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Back in March, I spoke at ProductCamp Cascadia (an online conference hosted by ProductCamp Portland , ProductCamp Seattle , and ProductCamp Vancouver ) exploring the topic of design justice. Welcome to JEDI Training for Continuous Discovery Teams. I work as a product discovery coach. Hi, everybody. Tweet This.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

s Consumer Insights team strategically collaborated with many other departments such as marketing, online, and store operations to share data and inform decisions based on changing customer preferences and behaviors. Nicole Lanni, Consumer Insights Manager at Gap Inc. In 2020, Gap Inc.’s For example, Gap Inc. The post Gap Inc.

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Product Talk

APRIL 20, 2022

“I get that the continuous discovery habits framework works well for mature products, but does it work for early-stage startups?”. I spent all of my full-time employee experience at early-stage startups (many of them pre-product) and I relied on these same habits to figure out what to build. This question always surprises me.

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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.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 10, 2018

At #mtpcon San Francisco, Leisa Reichelt , head of research and insights at Atlassian, took on our current approach to user research and how we take an evidence-based approach to doing completely the wrong thing. Five years ago, the industry was focused on just getting people to do any user research. Jakob Nielsen.

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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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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

Leading a product team (or several teams) comes with its own set of challenges that’s often similar to but distinct from the hurdles individual product contributors face. That’s why it’s especially enlightening when you encounter a product leader who is willing to openly share the challenges they’ve faced. Teresa: Okay.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Researchers often have concerns about what will happen when “other people” go out and do work with users. But the demand for research far outweighs the supply of researchers, and everyone wins when more people are enabled to do research themselves. Planning Research. What method of research should I use?

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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 11, 2020

We are starting to pull together our 2021 conference list. A lot has changed in the world since we last published our 2020 conference list. Nevertheless, we are finding that conference organizers are getting better at offering compelling online events. Are you looking for the 2020 Product Conference list?

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Mind the Product

MAY 3, 2019

“Do you like the conference so far?” It is tempting to ask customers what they want, but you won’t get a good answer. We may say “there is no such thing as a dumb question,” but in research, this isn’t true. For a researcher, this is the first question that should be asked. What are the customers key “jobs to be done”?

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Tips for creating customer use cases – for product managers Today we are talking about how to create and use customer use cases to guide product design. Our guest is Dr. Lilac Muller, VP of Product Management at Kymeta Corporation. 8:36] How do we create a customer use case?

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We are starting to pull together our list of 2024 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 2023 Product Conferences list? Find it here. Find it here.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

You’re not working the same way, and your customers have different needs than they did a month ago. – 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. Customer Discovery. Remote Working.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 4, 2017

I love working as a discovery coach. I coach each team—a product manager, a design lead, and a tech lead—for three months, working with them virtually week over week. During that time, we focus on developing their research skills (e.g. During that time, we focus on developing their research skills (e.g.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

We are starting to pull together our list of 2022 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 2021 Product Conferences list? Advancing Research Conference.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We are starting to pull together our 2020 conference list. If you know of a product conference that is not on the list and you think it should be, please feel free to recommend it in the comments or send an email to conferences@producttalk.org. Are you looking for the 2019 Product Conference list?

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Product Talk

AUGUST 2, 2023

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 journey. What Is Discovery?

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

It goes without saying that today’s consumers spend an incredible amount of time on their smartphones. Consider these statistics : Smartphone users access an average of 30 mobile apps in a month, at an average rate of 10 every day. Across every industry, apps are clearly an essential channel for customer engagement.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas. Testing business ideas. Testing Business Ideas, by David Bland and Alex Osterwalder: US , UK , DE.

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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

JULY 18, 2017

This is the first of two posts that deep dive on A/B testing, expanding on a talk I gave at Google Playtime 2016 in London. In this post I share some of the learnings we’ve had after running 60+ A/B tests at Peak , looking at each step of the A/B testing cycle in turn. Brainstorm your A/B tests. So what did we learn?

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

We are starting to pull together our list of 2023 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 2022 Product Conferences list? Product-Led Summit | Austin.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

There are all kinds of ways to introduce continuous discovery habits. If you’ve been at your company for a while, you might get inspired after reading a book or attending a conference. And if you’re really excited about an idea, you might look for opportunities to share it outside your company with the broader product community.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 30, 2018

How product managers observe and listen to users to gain valuable insights. How do you know what products you should build? What products will delight customers? That is the recurring theme–time with customers to understand what will delight them. Budget-minded usability testing.

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Melissa Perri

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cue awkward silence in the conference room. Neither tells you which customers matter most, which problems to solve first, or how to choose between competing initiatives. About Customers “Which customers are we targeting, and what research shows they want this?” Want to get better at Product Strategy?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2020

There’s a lot of debate in the product and research communities about quantitative vs qualitative approaches to metrics, so we sat down with Tomer Sharon (MD/Head of User Research and Metrics at Goldman Sachs) to talk about how he uses Google’s HEART approach to track what matters. Lean User Research.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 2020

Others have tried, but we’ve yet to find anyone else with her depth of experience (spanning stints as a developer, designer, researcher and product manager), her empathy for both users and stakeholders, her experience as a teacher, and her sense of humour. Has clicking that icon met the user intent of the feature?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Todd Lombardo reminds us that as product managers we often make bad decisions. The key to minimising these, he says, is effective product research. Key points: All product managers make bad decisions. Todd explains that even the most experienced and effective product managers make bad decisions.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

You’re Stuckand It’s Because You’re Playing by the Rules In product management, youve been told to follow the rules: stick to the roadmap, build consensus, and hit your OKRs. But what if I told you they’re actually sabotaging your product’s potential? Successful products are born from friction.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How to achieve product-market fit – for product managers This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA is also the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators, having started in 1976. Target customer 2.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 10, 2022

How product managers can support serial innovators. She began her career in chemical engineering at Polaroid, went on to do product commercialization at Corning Glass, and later became a university professor after earning her PhD from MIT. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [4:51]

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

These are situations that are fraught with the possibility for unintended consequences – something Roisi Proven covered in her great episode (and talk) about the Black Mirror Test. Ethical frameworks for product development. The Black Mirror Test. Kim Goodwin’s talk: How can we Build Human-Centred Products.

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Mind the Product

JULY 30, 2019

Roisi Proven is a true product person: she has a penchant for imagining the worst, which she’s turned into a superpower to put all of her product decisions through a rigorous ethics test. Ethical frameworks for product development. The Black Mirror Test. and at conferences across the US and Europe.

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