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. This has been our North Star metric. It has guided our work. It inspired me to write my book. It’s what motivates me to launch new courses and refine our existing lineup. It’s what encouraged...

I’m hosting a lineup of free events throughout September and October! I’d love for you to join one. September 23rd: Opportunity Solution Trees: Overcoming the Most Common Mistakes In this one-hour webinar, I’ll introduce the most common mistakes teams make when getting started with opportunity solution trees and how to overcome them. We’ll cover:...

Working as a product trio can be a major transformation. If you’re not used to working this way, it involves changing everything from the coworkers you collaborate with most closely and your communication style to the mindset you bring to work every day. Making the shift to product trios involves changing everything from the coworkers you collaborate...

Whenever I introduce the topic of customer interviews (the foundational element of continuous discovery), I get a lot of questions about who counts as a customer. Everyone thinks their company context is unique—whether they’re B2B or B2B2C or some other combination of letters and numbers. And while yes, there are countless variations across different...

It’s no secret that engineers can be hesitant to participate in product trios. They might feel anxious about taking on tasks that are new to them and outside their regular routine at work, like speaking directly with customers. They might fear that any time not spent coding is time when their technical skills are falling behind. Or they might question...

I recently sat down with the Consider and Contact team at Hemnet to discuss why they switched from Miro to Jira Product Discovery for building their opportunity solution trees. This was a detailed conversation where the team walked through: Why they started building opportunity solution trees in Miro and why that worked for quite some time. The...