Product Talk

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

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 of these activities and getting the people they work with on board as well. Do you have a Product in Practice story you’d like to share?

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The outcome and the opportunity space constrain the types of solutions the product trio might consider. the product manager has the final say), instead of collaborating as a cross-functional team. We know this collaboration is critical to product success. Opportunity solution trees have a number of benefits.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

Product discovery is becoming a trendy topic in the world of digital products. This article will cover the ins and outs of product discovery. What is Product Discovery? Product discovery is often defined in comparison to product delivery. Product discovery is a decision-making process. What is it?

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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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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2023

Product Talk’s North Star metric is to increase the number of product trios who adopt a continuous discovery cadence to their work. This is what inspired Teresa to write the Continuous Discovery Habits book and shift Product Talk to a course-first business. Meet new Product Talk instructor Ellen Brandenberger!

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UX Planet

MARCH 29, 2024

UX research is the foundation of successful design and development. It’s something every product designer should do, and which everyone can learn. Interviewing Users provides invaluable interviewing techniques and tools that enable you to conduct informative interviews with anyone.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 4, 2023

Reflecting on 2022: Measuring the Impact of Our Course Business. Switching to a course-first business has had a major impact on the number of people we can reach. In last year’s post , I announced that we were becoming a course-first business. When I was coaching full time, I worked with 30 teams over the course of the year.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

It sounds simple, but what happens if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet? Or what if you’re just getting started with an idea and your product doesn’t even exist yet? What do you do about discovery if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet?

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A regular cadence of assumption testing helps product teams quickly determine which ideas will work and which ones won’t. And sadly, most product teams don’t do any assumption testing at all. In this article, I’ll cover assumption testing from beginning to end, including: Why should product teams test their assumptions?

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2024

But when things don’t work out, we are reminded of the importance of eating your own dog food, aka using your own product to solve the problem you set out to address for your customers. This challenge was critical because it could lead to inaccurate product decisions, delays in development , and missed opportunities in a competitive industry.

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Product Talk

JULY 21, 2021

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. Today’s post is about getting your engineers more involved in your product trio. Do you want to practice customer interviewing?

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Product Talk

MARCH 8, 2023

In the product world, we tend to think of outcomes as the impact of what we build. For example, Product Talk’s outcome is to increase the number of teams who adopt a continuous cadence to their discovery work. To improve them, I’d need to set targets for a designated period of time. I can express this outcome as an OKR.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Interviewing customers , building opportunity solution trees , running assumption tests —these are all activities that take your attention away from delivery. Tweet This Still, in our Product Talk courses and webinars, we often hear the complaint that teams don’t have time for discovery. It’s true that discovery takes time.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Well, for one thing, it’s an excellent design culture. Design managers are professionals responsible for cultivating design culture. The courses listed below (both free and paid) will help you master essential tools, become a better leader, and get the very best from the UX professionals you work with.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 11, 2024

I graduated in May 2022 from the UX/UI Design Bootcamp at Ironhack in Berlin. When I’m in a job interview, I try to casually mention that I completed the Ironhack Bootcamp. Most recruiters have probably seen more than enough of these junior UX designers coming directly from a Bootcamp. Get the reasons from a Bootcamp survivor.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

5-step process The Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) is a powerful tool in product design that helps teams focus on understanding the needs and objectives of their customers rather than just the product itself. Here’s how to use the JTBD framework in product design: [link] 1. Why do they want to use your product?

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

“Product thought leaders talk about an ideal way of working. I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” product outcomes). And I hate it.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Product Talk’s North Star metric is to increase the number of product trios who adopt a continuous cadence to their discovery work. Teresa shared this goal at the beginning of 2022 when describing her plans to scale the impact of Product Talk. Meet product coach and consultant @ellenjuhlin. How did you end up in product?

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Product Talk

APRIL 6, 2022

We recently launched the Ask Teresa series on Product Talk, where I tackle common questions and challenges that I hear from people as they begin to adopt continuous discovery. Remember: We’re all susceptible to bias, both in terms of describing our own behavior and gathering insights from the interviews we conduct. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

MARCH 6, 2024

When you’re building a product, you can easily get overwhelmed by ideas. For today’s Tools of the Trade , we caught up with Leann Schneider , Product Manager at Plum. Leann found herself in exactly the situation we described above—her small product team was getting overwhelmed by insights from customers and internal stakeholders.

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Product Talk

JUNE 2, 2021

In this short video, I walk through what decision-making looks like in a product trio. If you missed the first video in this series, be sure to check that out first: What’s a product trio? Do product trios really work? What does decision-making really look like in a product trio? What do they do when they can’t agree?

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Product Talk

JANUARY 19, 2022

Some were the result of me continuing to be intentional about designing a business that I want to run for the rest of my life. Increasing the number of product trios who adopt a continuous cadence to their discovery work is my North Star metric. I coach product trios , so 30 teams typically means 90 people. Tweet This.

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 19, 2021

Nobody wants their product to be received as a source of frustration. There is almost certainly a product within arm’s reach that isn’t designed to fit your needs. Many products simply don’t cater to their users’ needs. Maybe the Product Manager was under budgetary or time constraints. Look around. How can this be?

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Build Empathy Through The Data Storytelling We’ve been hearing more and more about the importance of soft skills for designers. You’re sitting in the meeting with your stakeholders or clients, looking at the screen, and the phrase comes out: “The designs are done! I’ll admit it: I recently had a job interview.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In previous posts in this series, we’ve looked across the tech stacks of individual product teams to get an overview of how they use tools to support all of their continuous discovery habits. We’re zooming in on one aspect of discovery: automating the recruiting process for customer interviews.

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UX Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Across my years working in Digital Design and Product Design fields, one thing I’ve consistently noticed, is how certain topics, not matter the context in which we all live in (more on this tidbit later), we always go back to the same discussions. Aren’t we all just Designers? Yes, indeed we are. Let me rephrase that.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A portfolio is a window into your design principles and process. My guess is that’s because whether you like someone’s designs are relatively more subjective than whether you like a product manager’s approach, but I still think there are many traits that we can systematically identify when looking for a strong designer.

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Haines-Group

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The Problem Customer research is needed to discover new needs or to gather impressions of existing products. But the process can be daunting- designing the study, gathering the resources, then spending the time required to pull it off - my God the time! Valuable insights await just a few simple interviews away.

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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. I work as a product discovery coach. Here’s how I’m redefining JEDI training in a product context. Why Design Justice Matters.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 12, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Subscribe now P.S. Don’t miss Lennybot (an AI chatbot trained on my newsletter posts, podcast interviews, and more), my PM recruiting service (we help you hire Sr. ” I learned this trick from a book on interviewing.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. What doesn’t count as a customer interview? Who should you interview? Who should conduct customer interviews? Tweet This. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 14, 2020

For this month’s Product Talk post, I recorded a video where I consider the difference between product managers and product owners. I want to talk about product managers and product owners. I’ve had several companies ask me if they should be hiring product managers or product owners.

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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. Nor do they have a product.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The idea for a course catalog of conversation design courses has been parked in my drafts for the entire year. I only mention the conversation design resources that would’ve found helpful when I first transitioned into conversation design a few years ago. On my own, I wouldn’t have known such courses even existed!

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

From design-team-of-thirty to design-team-of-one Over the past two years, I have been a design-team-of-one at a fast-growing startup, and the experience has been nothing short of a rollercoaster. No matter how experienced a designer you are, you will likely face certain challenges.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 1, 2024

[link] Most beginners associate UX design with the use of Figma. But UI/UX design is a broader field of knowledge and skills. In this article, I’ve put together step-by-step tips on becoming a sought-after UX designer. User interface designers focus on the visual elements that users interact with.

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