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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. I started my career as a software engineer. How are we building production-quality software? I think that was in 2004. What does that mean?

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Product in Practice: Mapping Business and Product Outcomes to Stand Out in the Job Search

Product Talk

It’s often more common to see project-based user research rather than an ongoing, iterative discovery process.” Tweet This Teeba liked how Teresa focuses on continuous discovery, and she learned about the opportunity solution tree at a conference. . This one focuses on customer support within the platform.

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Product in Practice: Introducing Opportunity Solution Trees at Texthelp

Product Talk

Tali Melchior , Director of Product Management at Texthelp , was first inspired to experiment with opportunity solution trees in a previous role. Then when Tali moved to her current position, she brought her opportunity solution tree knowledge along and adapted it to the new setting. It was a great experience,” says Tali.

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Product in Practice: Why Ramsey Solutions Rotates Engineers in Their Product Trios

Product Talk

We’ll hear from several members of the product team at Ramsey Solutions about their not-so-smooth transition to working in product trios, especially when it came to getting engineers to participate. Intro to Ramsey Solutions Ramsey Solutions provides common-sense education about money and personal finance.

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Priority Starts at the Top

Folding Burritos

Technical debt can be valued in terms of “future change” outcomes like improved delivery velocity or better platform scalability, for example. A lot of our product work requires discovery, which is why the Opportunity-Solution-Experiment concepts in Teresa Torres’ tree are ideal. However, other types of work don’t need that.

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Defining Guidelines in Product Management

The Product Guy

When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. It was a mind expanding exercise and set a clear structure for me to rethink what is really the differentiation factor in our product. . Some of them are good, and some of them are bad.

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Common Product Vision Board Mistakes

Roman Pichler

The overall example I use to illustrate the mistakes is a healthy eating app that helps its users improve their eating habits and live more healthily. Examples : “Offer a weight loss mobile app”, “Become the number one weight loss app provider”. Additionally, such a vision is hardly inspiring.

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