Continuous Discovery Habits
by Teresa Torres · first published 2021
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2023–2026first – last mentioned
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Practical guide to continuous product discovery: talking to customers every week, validating ideas before building, and balancing business needs with customer needs. Useful for product managers and working teams.
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Just to add to this, a few things that can help: The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick, Demand-Side Sales 101 by Bob Moesta, Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres, and this article on Risk Taxonomies by Marty Cagan https://www.svpg.com/product-risk-taxonomies/
on “The Ideation Flywheel (or how to get better startup ideas)” ↗While I am not in the startup world, I feel like "Continuous Discovery Habits" by Teresa Torres would be a great read covering a similar topic. It talks about how to manage the business needs vs customer needs and focusing on outcome vs output. About continuously engaging with…
on “Ask HN: Must-Read Books for Startups?” ↗Continuous discovery habits by Teresa Torres https://www.producttalk.org/2021/05/continuous-discovery-hab... And The mom test Are the ones I’ve used the most as a product manager trying to talk to customers every week.
on “Ask HN: What are the best books on talking to users?” ↗…fully-fledged feature? The answer, very often, is positive. And if we follow up with an inquiry about how to validate such ideas without development, we will find a way more often than not. Teresa Torres' Continuous Discovery Habits is an entire book about that :) One of her recurring patterns is the Opportunity Solution Tree, which is a way of navigating across all the possible experiments to focus on the right ones (and ignore,…
on “Development speed is not a bottleneck” ↗1. Continuous discovery habits by Teresa Torres 2. Life at the speed of play by Mark Pincus 3. The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman 4. Autobiography of a Yogi by Pramahansa Yogananda
on “Attention is all you have” ↗…ambiguous. By starting from user insights, design thinking can uncover innovative solutions that truly address user needs. Key resources: Design Thinking by Nigel Cross The Design Sprint by Jake Knapp Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres 2. Lean Startup Lean startup is a methodology for rapidly experimenting and iterating new product concepts. The core idea is to build and test minimum viable products (MVPs) to validate…