Summary of Build better products with continuous product discovery | Teresa Torres

00:00:00 - 00:45:00

Teresa Torres discusses how continuous product discovery can help product managers make better decisions by understanding customer needs and testing assumptions. She recommends using interviews and observation to understand the opportunity space and to test potential solutions.

• 00:00:00 Teresa Torres teaches how to make better product bets by doing continuous product discovery. Continuous product discovery helps product managers make better bets by understanding what customers want and why they want it. Dovetail offers a suite of user research products to help product managers identify themes, patterns, and insights in their customer interviews.
• 00:05:00 The author of this video discusses how the opportunity solution tree framework is a simple but powerful way to visualize a strategy, to get buy-in from people, and to figure out what needs to be built before jumping to solutions. She also talks about how teaching people to be comfortable with discomfort is hard, and provides an example of a tree.
• 00:10:00 The author discusses the experience of watching streaming entertainment, and how it can be broken down into different stages. She then provides guidance on how to create a product discovery tree, based on customer stories.
• 00:15:00 The video discusses ways that individuals can build better products by doing continuous product discovery. First, interviewing well is essential in order to identify opportunities. Second, being able to frame opportunities correctly is important, and third, having an outcome-oriented mindset is essential. Finally, individuals can find customers by talking to people they know or by starting with their users.
• 00:20:00 Teresa Torres discusses the benefits of continuous product discovery, which includes incorporating customer feedback into product decisions. She provides an example of how assumption testing can be used to help make better product decisions. Torres also discusses the trend of businesses transitioning to a continuous product development mindset.
• 00:25:00 In this video, Teresa Torres discusses the concept of continuous product discovery, which is the process of making bets and testing assumptions in order to improve the quality of your products. Torres recommends using recurring meetings to enable customers to opt in and participate in the process of product discovery. She also recommends using teams within your organization to facilitate the process, as they are already in contact with the people you want to interview.
• 00:30:00 The video interviews Teresa Torres, a product manager, on the role of continuous product discovery in building better products. Torres advises that companies need to instrument their products, measure the impact of their solutions, and use multiple solutions for the same opportunity to compare and contrast before making a decision. She also shares an anecdote about how kindergartners outperform almost every adult group in a task that requires trial and error and collaboration.
• 00:35:00 The presenter discusses how to better productize by continuously doing product discovery. She talks about how to interview and how to elicit stories from interviewees. By doing this, you can learn more about the person and their experience.
• 00:40:00 In this video, Teresa Torres explains how product teams can use continuous product discovery to better understand and solve problems. Torres recommends using interviews and observation to understand the opportunity space and to test assumptions about potential solutions. She also notes that experiments can be counterproductive if they don't test the idea thoroughly before committing to it.
• 00:45:00 In this podcast, Teresa Torres discusses how to break down an idea into its underlying assumptions and then run tests to verify those assumptions. She also mentions a book, Continuous Discovery Habits, and a blog, producttalk.org, where listeners can find more information about her approach. Finally, she asks listeners to be helpful by helping to change minds about assumption testing.