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Tag: Discovery
Learning what to build before you build it: customer interviews, assumption mapping, experiments, and continuous discovery habits.
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The smallest product increment that delivers real user value and generates learning about whether your hypothesis is correct.
Structured tests designed to validate assumptions and hypotheses about a product idea before committing to full implementation.
You're shipping constantly and nothing is changing. The roadmap is full, the release notes are long, and the metrics haven't moved.
Teresa Torres' framework for building a sustained discovery practice through weekly customer touchpoints, opportunity solution trees, and assumption testing.
Jeff Patton's essay establishing that discovery and delivery are one team's single process, not two competing tracks.
Marty Cagan's foundational text on how strong product organizations actually work, including the product trio, continuous discovery, and the difference between product and feature teams.
Giff Constable's practical guide to conducting effective customer interviews for product discovery and entrepreneurship.
David J. Bland and Alex Osterwalder's field guide to 44 experiment types for validating product assumptions before you build.
Where LLMs sharpen product discovery and where they quietly hollow it out — a stage-by-stage guide to the dos and don'ts.
A collaborative technique for surfacing and prioritizing the riskiest assumptions behind a product idea using a 2x2 grid of importance vs. evidence.
Structured conversations with users and customers designed to uncover problems, motivations, and context rather than validate your existing ideas.
The practice of regularly using what you build so you experience it the way your customers do; commonly called dogfooding.
A collaborative workshop format for discovering and modeling business processes through domain events, commands, and aggregates.
A structured conversation technique for decomposing user story steps into concrete examples, rules, and open questions.
A visual technique for tracing paths through a story map to plan MVPs, prioritize delivery, and coordinate discovery, design, and engineering work.
An immersive workshop that helps teams build a repeatable product discovery system, shifting focus from outputs to outcomes and impacts through hands-on practice with discovery techniques.