Episode description

In this episode of the Product People Podcast, hosted by Joao Moita, Teresa Torres dives into the concept of continuous discovery habits. She highlights the challenges that arise when separating discovery and delivery in product development, emphasizes the importance of involving the entire team in the discovery process and shares insights on stable vs unstable research findings. Organizational change and the role of ICs in implementing continuous discovery in an organization is also discussed. Furthermore, she explores the opportunity solution tree framework and how it connects to assumption testing. The podcast concludes with Teresa reflecting on her career path and the differences between the US and European Product scene.

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Timestamps:

(1:31) Continuous Discovery Habits

(3:45) Problems with splitting discovery and delivery

(5:31) Setup of the product trio

(7:53) Involving the whole team in discovery

(10:10) Stable research insights

(12:09) Opportunity solution tree

(16:46) Assumption testing

(20:24) Implementing continuous discovery at an organization

(22:47) Developing discovery habits as an IC

(24:46) Organizational change

(27:28) European eagerness to learn

(29:45) Teresa's career path