Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 23, 2024

How product managers are transforming innovation with AI tools Watch on YouTube TLDR In this deep dive into AI’s impact on product innovation and management, former PayPal Senior Director of Innovation Mike Todasco shares insights on how AI tools are revolutionizing product development.

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

The beauty of continuous discovery is that there’s no single right way to do it. For example, while Teresa recommends creating a product trio that includes a product manager, engineering lead, and a designer, she acknowledges that some product trios might be made up of slightly different members. Tweet This.

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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).

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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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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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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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Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

The foundation of continuous discovery is weekly touchpoints with customers. These touchpoints will allow you to collect stories that help you identify opportunities and build out your opportunity solution tree. It sounds simple, but what happens if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet?

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Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

It’s no secret that engineers can be hesitant to participate in product trios. Or they might question how doing discovery is going to serve their short and long-term career ambitions. We’ll dig into why the engineers were hesitant to get involved, the solution they came up with, and some of the lessons they’ve learned along the way.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Hello, Product Talk readers! It’s time for another installment of Product in Practice. In this series, we highlight the impressive work that forward-thinking product teams are doing. Find our other Product in Practice posts here. During her tenure as a data scientist, Lisa built two predictive products. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

You don’t necessarily need anyone’s permission to get started with continuous discovery. But at the same time, continuous discovery shouldn’t always be a solo activity. There’s a reason why Teresa often refers to the product trio : Continuous discovery is more effective when you avoid turf wars and bring in different perspectives.

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Product Talk

JUNE 1, 2022

And this is not just an empty excuse—most product people’s calendars are packed. As Teresa writes in Continuous Discovery Habits, “The hardest part about continuous interviews is finding people to talk to. One of the tactics Teresa recommends is recruiting participants while they’re using your product or service. Tweet This.

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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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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Laura and her team spend every working hour researching, designing, and experimenting with ways to measure and improve team velocity (while avoiding burnout). Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems.

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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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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Case Study: Improving Data-Driven Decision Making for CSR Leadership Civian is a data-driven platform designed to help businesses measure, optimize, and showcase the social and economic impact of their investments in communities. Our Process To make our interviews more fruitful, we established specific research objectives.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 3, 2024

For Mike Donovan , Senior Vice President of Product at Sauce Labs , the answer to that question is a resounding yes. For Mike Donovan, Senior Vice President of Product at Sauce Labs, the answer to that question is a resounding yes. Mike began his career as an engineer and transitioned into product about five years ago.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. 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.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction My first product management job wasn’t exactly what you call a success story: I was part of a team that was called in to help with a new product development effort, and I ended up working with the lead product manager. But that’s still not enough.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 21, 2024

How product managers can foster a culture of innovation Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR In this episode of Product Mastery Now, I’m interviewing Chris Elmore, a tech entrepreneur and college professor who helped found Avid Exchange, a unicorn startup that went public in 2021.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Brought to you by: • Enterpret —Transform customer feedback into product growth • Vanta —Automate compliance. This opens up opportunities to integrate smarter, smaller models into products. Don’t just build the best product; build the product that resonates most with your users.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A lot of product teams claim to be focused on their users. This is why Teresa talks about continuous discovery in terms of forming new habits. It’s not so much about becoming perfect at continuous discovery (because there really isn’t such a thing). Have a Product in Practice story you’d like to share with Product Talk readers?

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I talk to a lot of PMs and I ask them (and everyone who subscribes to my newsletter) the same question: what’s your biggest struggle as a Product Manager? Having put together a fairly popular resource on product prioritization methods, I would’ve hoped the situation to be different. But it’s not.

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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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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 13, 2024

Vandegriff recognized for exceptional leadership of technology and teams, positively impacting Alchemer customers LOUISVILLE, COLORADO, March 13, 2024 – Alchemer, a global leader in experience management and enterprise feedback technology, today announced that Brandi Vandegriff has won the Colorado Technology Association’s CIO of the Year Award.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

. – Tweet This I was very intentional about including the word “habits” in my book title, Continuous Discovery Habits , because I wanted to emphasize the fact that anyone can make small changes in their behavior to get better at discovery. Overview of the Continuous Discovery Habits Community: What Is It and Who Participates?

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The Product Guy

MAY 30, 2019

Guest Post by: Daphne Garcin (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler]. So we want to innovate and create new features for our product. Then we think about potential solutions or features. Hypotheses are only useful if we test them (with customers), to validate or discard them.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2024

However, product managers often face even greater challenges when navigating high-stakes situations with senior leadership or dealing with conflicting priorities across departments. These moments can be politically challenging, as they require balancing the immediate demands of stakeholders with long-term product goals.

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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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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. Building better products. How to work with designers.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Questions product managers ask me about how to improve innovation Watch on YouTube TLDR Product managers are pivotal in driving innovation within organizations. By mastering these areas, product managers can improve their skills, boost their influence, and contribute more effectively to their organization’s success.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

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DevelopmentCorporate

JUNE 2, 2025

How Companies Are Funding User Research in 2025: Insights from the User Interviews Research Budget Report User Interviews 2025 Research Budget Report is a crucial resource for understanding how modern organizations are approaching the financial side of user research. Only 17% experienced reductions.

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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

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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