Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome to JEDI Training for Continuous Discovery Teams. I work as a product discovery coach. I’ve had the luxury of working with teams all over the world, and I teach them a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. Here’s how I’m redefining JEDI training in a product context.

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Product Talk

MAY 15, 2024

Committing to continuous discovery means changing the way your product team operates. Continuous discovery means not making decisions purely based on your intuitions or stakeholder requests, but finding ways to integrate touch points with customers into your work every week. Tweet This This can sound overwhelming.

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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 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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Continuous discovery is not a linear journey—as much as we might want it to be. Continuous discovery is not a linear journey—as much as we might want it to be. That’s certainly the case for Kelsey Terry , who’s sharing her story in today’s Product in Practice. Do you have a Product in Practice story you’d like to share?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

For years, I’ve shared that Product Talk’s primary outcome is to increase the number of product teams who adopt a continuous cadence to their discovery work. Today, I’m excited to announce my first step in correcting for that: We have launched our first ever CDH Benchmark Survey. This has been our North Star metric.

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Last week, I shared that we often get asked, Do API teams need to do discovery ? Customer-facing APIs are products. And just like any product, if we dont do good discovery, well have gaps in our offering. You want customers to get value from your product as quickly as possible. Alright, lets dive in.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Ellen starts by looking at some of the process traps and pitfalls for product managers when they make decisions about strategy, tactics, discovery and delivery, namely: making Read more » The post Sunday Rewind: How to make product decisions with transparency and trust by Ellen Gottesdiener appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

Platform Teams and API Teams Need to Do Discovery As youll see, I ran into several challenges along the way. These challenges made it abundantly clear to me that API teams need to be doing far more discovery than they are clearly doing. Are there API teams who are doing good discovery? Do they usability test their API?

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Continuous discovery is about changing your behavior. That’s why Teresa named her book Continuous Discovery Habits. You don’t just think your way into continuous discovery. You don’t just think your way into continuous discovery. Let’s be clear: The tools alone won’t automatically make you better at discovery.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. This article will help reduce such churn by refining your product management and UX analysis approach. Even though they’re the ones using the product. How to start your UX analysis.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

Product trios are cross-functional product teams who are responsible for both deciding what to build and then building it. The goal is for a product trio to represent balanced perspectives while still remaining as small as possible to facilitate and expedite collaborative decision-making. What is a product trio?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] AI Strategy Benefits My research shows that AI can help you make better strategic decisions faster, at least for certain products. [1] 2] Market Research AI-based tools can discover user and customer trends using predictive analytics.

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Userpilot

APRIL 17, 2025

When done right, mobile surveys receive up to 3x higher response rates than traditional web surveys. With 85% of adults keeping their smartphones within arm’s reach at all times, mobile surveys have become the most direct route to gathering authentic user feedback. What is a mobile survey?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] A Product Strategy System The product strategy system in Figure 1 consists of four main parts: people, processes, principles, and tools. Having said this, the system in Figure 1 captures the specific product strategy approach Ive created. [1]

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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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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Surveying your mobile customers is a great way to find out more about who they are, what drives them back to your app, how they feel about your app, and what they’d like improved. These are questions you can only answer by looking at the individuality of each customer: What do they care about in your product? Gather product feedback.

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Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

Its one thing to iterate on an existing product. Its a whole other challenge to identify brand-new products to offer. The same is true for API products. They still exist, even when your product is an API. And just because APIs are slightly more technical products, that doesnt mean that you cant apply discovery to them.

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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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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

According to an InMobi survey , the number one challenge facing app developers today isn’t design or development. Without marketing, even the best apps struggle when it comes to customer acquisition and discovery. Now it’s time to put your app and positioning to the test. It’s marketing. The bad news? The good news?

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 31, 2022

A mobile survey that is served to your customers at the right place and right time helps you understand who they are, why they use your app, and what improvements they want to see. Ultimately, most brands are unable to answer their most important product question: what makes a customer a customer? Gather product feedback.

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Userpilot

MARCH 9, 2025

What happens when you build a product or service around what you think potential customers want, only for them to buy something else? But worse than that, it leads to lower revenue, failed products, and plummeting customer loyalty. The solution seems obvious: improve your customer research process. The short answer: yes.

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Usersnap

JUNE 26, 2025

Too many discovery efforts fail silently. Because most discovery is just activity. To change that, we partnered with David Pereira , a product leader & product coach who’s made a name for calling out “fake discovery” and showing teams how to course-correct with ruthless clarity. Not alignment.

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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. Vision Captures Product Idea or Business Objective. Cause : A confusion about what an effective product vision is.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

The foundation of continuous discovery is weekly touchpoints with customers. 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?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 12, 2025

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Overview of the Matrix The Innovation Ambition Matrix, which was developed by Bansi Nagji and Geoff Tuff, considers the newness of the product on its horizontal axis and the newness of the market on the vertical axis. Take, for example, the Apple Watch and the Google Chrome browser.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 17, 2025

June 17, 2025 – Alchemer, a global leader in customer experience and feedback technology, is proud to announce it has been named to Inc.’s Alchemer empowers customer-obsessed teams to move from asking to action with software that scales from a one-time survey to sophisticated feedback programs.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

The term product owner is commonly used to refer to six different product roles in my experience. These are: The original Scrum product owner who owns a product in its entirety and is responsible for maximising the value it creates. The SAFe product owner who owns the product details. Scrum Product Owner.

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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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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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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Myth #1: The product owner must ensure that the stakeholders are satisfied. But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal.

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Product Talk

MAY 13, 2020

I’m excited to add Hope Gurion as an official author on Product Talk. She coaches teams using my Continuous Discovery Habits curriculum and is helping me bring the Continuous Discovery Habits workshop to more companies. Good discovery starts with a clear desired outcome. Help me in welcoming Hope as an official author.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

Guest Post by: Sherzod Abdujabborov (Mentee, Session 7, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Dan Mason]. Once we had a couple dozen big names, it was easy to convince the laggards. We became a so-lala product: So-Lala [zo la la] – German word for so-so or meh. The So-Lala Product epidemic. Let’s go Agile!

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Duolingo has long been a standout in product strategy, company culture, and user engagement. Over 14 years, it has grown into a household name, blending language learning with gamification to keep users returning. Now, with the release of its company handbook, we get a behind-the-scenes look at what drives its success.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2024

This is every product manager’s nightmare – an onboarding failure that cripples customer retention. But your product doesn’t have to be that way! Customer onboarding is the process of welcoming new customers to your product or service and helping them utilize the product and maximize the value of their purchase.

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