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2026 26
- Defining What Good Looks Likes - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Mind-Bending Experiences - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Building an AI Voice Agent for 360 Degree Feedback: How Your360 AI Uses State Machines, Evals, and Layered Synthesis
- Training Expectations - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Recorded Conversations - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Generating Opportunity Solution Trees with AI: How Vistaly Rebuilt Its Product Around Interview Synthesis, Evals, and Repair Loops
- Unpacking Innovation - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Trash Can Tracking - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Ch. 10: Testing Assumptions
- Creating Aha! Builder: Concept to Code, No Engineers Required
- 4 New Evals and 16 Experiment Variants to Fix 1 Customer Complaint
- Delivery Isn’t Free - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Facilitation Skills - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Get My Eval Test Harness and Run Your First Experiment
- AI Evals: A Hands-On Guide for Product Teams
- The Call to Adventure
- Ch. 9: Identifying Hidden Assumptions
- Organizational Change is Exhausting - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- What I Learned from the Recent Wave of Package Hacks (And Is Cowork Immune?)
- AI Engineering - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Kill Your Darlings - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- From Customer Interviews to an Opportunity Solution Tree—In Minutes
- Exploring What's Just Now Possible: How AI-Powered Discovery and Expert Feedback Are Driving My 2026 Roadmap
- Happy New Year! - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- How to Use Claude Code: A Guide to Slash Commands, Agents, Skills, and Plug-ins
- Ch. 1-2: The What & Why of Continuous Discovery (+Opportunity Solution Trees)
2025 24
- Role of Leadership in Transformations - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- How to Choose Which Tasks to Automate with AI (+50 Real Examples)
- Global Invoicing - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Deliberate Practice - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- AI as a Strategic Thought Partner with UX Implications - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- 15 Ways to Use AI at Home (and Fill Your AI Product Toolbox)
- Q&A Session: Building AI Evals for the Interview Coach
- How I Designed & Implemented Evals for Product Talk’s Interview Coach
- Curation - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Building My First AI Product: 6 Lessons from My 90-Day Deep Dive
- Behind the Scenes: Building the Product Talk Interview Coach
- Red Flags When Choosing A Coach - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Preparing Leaders and Stakeholders to Support Product Operating Model Pilot Teams
- AI Prototyping - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Building Skills: Setting Pilot Teams Up for Product Operating Model Success
- Giving and Taking in a Community - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Product vs. Project Operating Models - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Saying No - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Leadership Professional Development - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Product in Practice: Getting Started with Several APIs (And the Challenges I Faced)
- So Many Coaches - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Training vs. Coaching - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
- Ask the Community: Tracking Opportunities Not Related to Your Outcome
- Let’s Connect in 2025: A Look at the Year Ahead
2024 17
- Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing
- Customer Recruiting for Continuous Discovery: Get Easy Access to Customers Week Over Week
- 12 Hurdles to Effective Product Trio Collaboration
- Tell Us About Your Team: Take the Continuous Discovery Habits Benchmark Survey (2024)
- Shifting from Outputs to Outcomes: Why It Matters and How to Get Started
- Ask Teresa: What Do You Do with Atypical Customer Stories?
- Don't Use Generative AI to Replace Discovery with Real Humans
- Product in Practice: Testing Assumptions Was Tricky But the Convo Team Didn’t Give Up
- Product in Practice: Getting Value Out of In-App Surveys Takes Iteration
- Product in Practice: Shifting from a Feature Factory to Continuous Discovery at Doodle
- Story-Based Customer Interviews Uncover Much-Needed Context
- Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?
- The Interview Snapshot: How to Synthesize and Share What You Learned from a Single Customer Interview
- Product in Practice: Introducing Opportunity Solution Trees at Texthelp
- Product in Practice: Making Customer Interviewing a Habit in an Early-Stage Startup
- 2024: Focusing on Finding Joy in My Work
- Product in Practice: Continuous Discovery Fuels Innovation at Sauce Labs
2023 24
- Product in Practice: Creating Opportunities for Deliberate Practice at BBC Maestro
- Product in Practice: Iterating on Outcomes with Limited Data
- No Time for Discovery? Here’s How to Fix It.
- Product in Practice: Stepping Into Your First Product Leadership Role—What to Expect
- Assumption Testing: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
- Evaluating Solutions: The 5 Types of Assumptions that Underlie Our Ideas
- How Can Product Leaders Support Continuous Discovery?
- Product in Practice: Learning to Interview Continuously
- Everyone Can Do Continuous Discovery—Even You! Here’s How
- Product Talk is Growing: Meet New Instructor Ellen Brandenberger
- Product in Practice: One Product Manager’s Quest to Adopt Continuous Discovery at Her Company
- Leading the Change: How Ellen Juhlin Introduced Discovery Habits at Orion Labs
- Ask Teresa: How Can You Test a Customer’s Willingness to Pay?
- Tools of the Trade: Using Personal Knowledge Management to Solve Problems and Boost Creativity
- Understanding How Product Outcomes Connect to Revenue and Costs
- Product in Practice: Getting Engineers Involved in Brainstorming
- Building a Culture of Accountability for Empowered Product Teams
- Ask Teresa: What’s the Difference Between OKRs and Outcomes?
- Insights from the CDH Benchmark Survey: How Are Teams Adopting Discovery Habits?
- Insights from the CDH Benchmark Survey: Measuring Product and Team Performance
- Tools of the Trade: Recruiting Customer Interview Participants
- Sourcing Opportunities: Unlocking the Power of Opportunity Mapping
- Product in Practice: Building to Learn at Singularity Creations
- Slowing Down: Choosing Not to Set Goals for 2023
2022 19
- Defining Product Outcomes: The 8 Most Common Mistakes You Should Avoid
- Customer Interviews: How to Recruit, What to Ask, and How to Synthesize What You Learn
- Product Talk Is Growing: Meet New Instructor Ellen Juhlin
- Discovery Is Messy: How Do We Keep Track of All That We Are Learning?
- Tell Us About Your Team: Take the Continuous Discovery Habits Benchmark Survey
- Product in Practice: Mapping Opportunities at trivago
- Ask Teresa: What if Your Buyers Aren’t Your Users?
- Ask Teresa: How Do You Get Your First Product Job Without Experience?
- Ask Teresa: What Should You Do With Insights That Don’t Come from Customer Interviews?
- Product in Practice: Automating Customer Interview Recruiting at Zonar Systems
- Ask Teresa: My Sales Team Won’t Let Me Talk To Customers. What Now?
- Tools of the Trade: A Look at Pendo’s Discovery Tech Stack
- How Continuous Discovery Works (and Doesn’t) in Early-Stage Startups
- Ask Teresa: What Are the Best Customer Interview Questions?
- Discovering Solutions: Quickly Determine Which Ideas Will Work (And Which Won’t)
- Ask Teresa: How Do You Select Customers for Customer Interviews?
- Ask Teresa: Who’s Responsible for What in the Product Trio?
- Product in Practice: Assumption Testing with Engineers at Orion Labs
- Scaling Impact: A Look at the Year Ahead (2022)
2021 12
- Tools of the Trade: A Look at the Discovery Tech Stack at 99designs
- Discovery Hand-Offs Kill Momentum: Here’s What to Do Instead
- Product in Practice: Finding the Best Way to Communicate with Different Stakeholders
- Product Discovery Basics: Everything You Need to Know
- Writing a Book: How Continuous Discovery Helped Me Write a Better Book
- Core Concept: Getting Engineers to Embrace the Product Trio
- Continuous Discovery Habits (the Book) is Finally Here!
- Rethinking Product Discovery with Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Mind
- Why There’s No Single “Right” Way to Do Discovery: Part 3
- Why There’s No Single “Right” Way to Do Discovery: Part 2
- Why There’s No Single “Right” Way to Do Discovery: Part 1
- A Look at the Year Ahead: The Product Talk Roadmap (With a Book Update)
2020 10
- Product in Practice: When Travel Ground to a Halt, Seera Group Used Opportunity Mapping to Discover a New Market
- Inspiring Strong Product Leaders: A Conversation with Petra Wille
- Product in Practice: Iterating to an Actionable Outcome at tails.com
- Opportunity Mapping: An Essential Skill for Driving Product Outcomes
- Empower Product Teams with Product Outcomes, Not Business Outcomes
- Product in Practice: How 2-Way Door Decisions Helped Simply Business Learn Fast
- Working Remotely? 5 Ways to Help Your Product Team Thrive
- Why Product Trios Should Interview Customers Together
- Product in Practice: Tackling Big Hairy Product Challenges with Continuous Discovery
- What I’m Saying Yes to in 2020 (With 2 Big Announcements)
2019 6
- Product in Practice: Getting Started with Opportunity Solution Trees at SuperAwesome
- Everyone Thinks They’re Managing by Outcomes. Here’s How to Actually Do it.
- Show Your Work: How to Justify Your Decisions & Get Stakeholder Buy-In
- Continuous Product Discovery is for Everyone [Case Study]
- Taking Continuous Discovery to the Next Level at SEEK [Case Study]
- What I’m Saying No to This Year—And Why
2018 5
2017 7
- The Results Are In! Feedback from the First Continuous Interviewing Cohort
- This Keystone Habit Will Fuel the Rest of Your Continuous Discovery Habits
- How Compare and Contrast Decisions Lead to Better Product Outcomes
- 3 Best Practices for Adopting Continuous Product Discovery
- 7 Standout Moments From Mind the Product SF 2017
- The Ladder of Evidence: Get More Value From Your Customer Interviews and Product Experiments
- The Evolution of Modern Product Discovery
2016 6
- Why You Are Asking the Wrong Customer Interview Questions
- The Rise of Modern Product Discovery
- How to Take Notes During Customer Research Interviews
- Why You Are Probably Interviewing the Wrong People (And How to Fix It)
- Video: How One Chief Product Officer Is Reinventing Product Management At Her Company
- Why Drawing Maps Sharpens Your Thinking
2015 3
2014 3
2013 2
2012 1
2011 1
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- The cdh community of practice
- Opportunity solution trees
- Stakeholder feature requests
- Finding interview participants before customers
- Discovery habits webmd
- Adopting discovery habits is iterative
- Manage customer requests plum
- Product trios
- Jira product discovery
- Rotate engineers product trio
- Who counts as a customer
- Botify product trios
- Automate recruiting orbital
- Engineer lead product trio
- Mapping outcomes job search
- Inherit product backlog
- Applying discovery for employee experience
- Tools of the trade vistaly
- Spicey framework
- My organization doesnt work that way all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Organizational readiness
- Deep work all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Ai generated opportunity solution trees all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Frameworks when to use them when to break them all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Product discovery with internal customers all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Product discovery b2b vs b2c all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Capacity planning all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Crafting a conference talk all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Iterating on product strategy all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Big backlogs all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Transitioning customers api
- Evaluating a new api
- Ship value weekly
- Measurable outcomes all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- What is product ops all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Leading or managing chaos all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Funding projects vs teams all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Pilot team resistance
- Expect stakeholder resistance
- Go to the source all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Summer break all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Ai prototyping lovable
- Stop chasing promotions all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Building ai products all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Ai evals discovery all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Product leadership legacy all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- The product operating model
- Moments that changed us all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Context is king all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Ai at home and work all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Give claude code a memory
- Dealing with setbacks all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Learning from 8 ai product teams
- Communities of practice all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Customer interview analysis all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- End of year reflection 2026 all things product
- Product at heart 2026 all things product
- How does chatgpt work
- Build vs buy all things product
- Cdh book club february 2026
- Groupthink when hiring all things product
- Claude code all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Support system for product leaders all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Boundaries between product engineering all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille 6
- Lost in the woods all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille 6
- Stakeholder management
- Building github for product management how momental uses ai to find merge conflicts in strategy
- Conversations with claude content audit
- Staying sane all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Outcomes vs outputs
- Bad advice all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Product builders all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Vibe coding best practices
- Cdh book club april 2026
- Fomo all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Product roadmaps
- Product work is relationship work all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Predicting the future all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Command and control all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Cdh book club april 2026 2
- Taste all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Product builder myth all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Behind the scenes ai osts
- Is technology good all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Cdh book club june 2026
- Procurement all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Learning together all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Creating experiences all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Ai shaped problems all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Cdh book club july 2026
- Stepping into leadership all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- Quality of evidence all things product podcast with teresa torres petra wille
- 4 questions i always ask when interviewing product managers
- How not to find a product job
- Why defining your market is essential to finding a product job
- 3 ways learn about company and impress hiring manager
- How to craft your personal story to land your next product job
- Working on remote teams
- The best of product talk in 2013
- My top reads from 2013
- My favorite tools of the trade
- The three pillars of building great products
- The habit of feeling super human
- My favorite books read in 2014
- Barriers to outcome based product management
- Happy birthday product talk thank you
- Be curious not critical
- Product managers level problem solving skills
- Opportunity solution tree origin
- Upcoming events march 2024
- Upcoming events may 2024
- Upcoming events august 2024
- Upcoming events september october 2024
- Upcoming events december 2024
- Upcoming events january february 2025
- Upcoming events march 2025
- Customer segments teresas take
- Opportunity mapping grailed
- Opportunity solution trees in everyday life
- Roadmaps with timelines
- Common discovery mistakes
- Api usablity issues
- Context engineering
- Cdh book club march 2026
- From prototype to production how perk built a voice ai agent that makes 10 000 calls a week
- Upcoming events may 2026
- Choosing pilot teams product operating model
- 21 ways to use ai at work
- Customer interview analysis ai
- Ai changes everything and nothing at all
- Whats an api
- Debugging ai products from data leakage to evals with hamel husain
- Building ai coworkers how neople is making agents work where you work
- Building alyx at arize
- Claude code what it is and how its different
- How to use claude code safely
- How to build ai workflows with claude code
- Context rot
- How to share your ai context and skills
- My team of agents
- Package hacks installer settings
- 2026 product conference list
- Building ai for womens health how hertility combined bayesian diagnosis and scan automation
- From covid pivot to ai world building how snapbar reinvented the photo experience
- Is this okay how override labs built a safety first ai consent coach for teen boys
- Beyond black box scores how musubi trains custom ai for trust and safety teams
- Building lorikeet how ai humility and a dual agent architecture are redefining customer support
- Benefits of opportunity solution trees
- Impact of product trios
- Building rheas factory how ai designed enzymes could finally solve plastic recycling
- Building ai employees for hospitality how aitropos takes orders where customers already are
- Hypothesis testing mistake 1 not knowing what you want to learn
- How to estimate the expected impact of a product change
- Dont rely on confidence alone
- Run experiments before you write code
- Product requirements
- Ideal product team
- Map the challenge course
- Annual review
- What a clear product vision looks like
- Why most product teams dont define a clear vision
- Improve these 8 decisions and build great products faster
- Putting the 4 levels of product analysis into practice a halloween themed example
- Enterprise experiments
- Defining the problem generating solutions
- Stop wishing and start doing
- Why you arent learning as much as you could from your experiments
- Are you a product manager lets talk
- Introduction to product discovery
- 2017 product conferences
- Managing product teams
- Experiment design
- Product conferences 2018
- Rapid prototyping
- Time in product discovery
- Managing stakeholders
- Effective product discovery
- Product conferences 2019
- Prioritize opportunities
- Continuous discovery across the organization
- Engaging stakeholders
- Big company innovation
- Measure discovery
- Product managers product owners
- Product conferences 2021
- Product trio
- Decision making in a product trio
- Roles in a product trio
- User research and continuous discovery
- Customer segments hopes take
- Tools optimal workshop
- Product conferences 2022
- Product job
- Product conferences 2023
- Product conferences 2024
- Product conferences 2025
- Podcast preview all things product with teresa torres petra wille
- Pilot teams
- Announcing just now possible
- Podcast preview just now possible
- Ellen brandenberger stack overflow just now possible
- Inside esparks ai teacher assistant rag evals and real classroom needs
- Powering government with community voices
- Building trainlines ai travel assistant
- When ai becomes your sre how incident io is automating incident response
- Turning vendor chaos into answers how xelix built an ai helpdesk
- Building an ai sleep coach how rest is making cbti principles accessible to diy sleep hackers
- Building mowie an ai marketing platform
- Building a multi agent platform with gradient labs
- Building a career co pilot at zero gravity
- Building tendos ai
- When trust is everything building ai for physicians at healio
- Building earmark how a two person team turned meetings into finished work
- Building ai sales reps showme
- Building agent studio medable
- Building banani how a canvas first ai designer is raising the floor on product design
- Building todoist ramble how doist turned voice braindumps into real time task capture
- Product conferences 2020
- Turning big ideas into great products
- The ethics of the data we collect
- Be prepared to be wrong
- Stop asking whether or not questions
- How to make better product decisions
- Confirmation bias
- Turn your inside view outward
- Status quo bias
- Help others make good product decisions too
- Dont overcommit to a bad idea
- Dont make snap product decisions
- Read decisive and make better product decisions
- Mini coaching sessions
- Should you learn to code
- User stories are better than prds
- User stories arent as simple as they seem
- Using themes to wrestle an ever growing backlog of user stories
- Predicting the impact of each user story
- The art not science of user story prioritization
- Writing acceptable acceptance criteria
- Everything you ever wanted to know about writing user stories
- Global product management talk writing compelling user stories
- Why ignoring bugs will make your product better
- Be truthful be concise be relevant be clear
- Are you sending enough email to your users
- Designing product emails that convert
- The awful world of email deliverability
- Iterative product requirements
- How the 101010 rule can lead to better product decisions
- You probably suck at estimating and what you can do about it
- Drop feature based product roadmaps
- The challenges of releasing early and often
- The dangers of thinking of products as features
- Weekend reading ab testing is hard to pivot or not and more
- How to run an ab test
- Build knowledge by expanding on previous hypotheses
- Leanstartupconf2015
- What we can learn from facebook about managing change
- How to frame your product vision
- Weekend reading a product ux rant choosing metrics and setting goals
- Find big wins by setting exponential goals
- Measuring the success of product emails
- Measure what matters
- How do you measure success
- Its not enough to know what to measure you also need to get the time increment right
- Read lean analytics
- Setting product goals
- How to set goals that drive product success
- Are you getting your growth goals right
- You already know to begin with the end in mind but do you
- The why behind product feedback
- Build your visual communication skills
- Brainstorming more questions than answers
- You arent the only one who can have innovative ideas
- Reward ideas with good feedback
- Introducing my intern to interaction design is fun
- Grinding it out
- Start an idea journal
- Find someone else who has solved your problem before
- Is your idea a viable business
- Stop brainstorming and generate better ideas
- Thats not brainstorming
- How to turn bad ideas into good ideas
- How we used kindling at aftercollege to engage everyone in idea generation
- Why testing everything doesnt work
- The simplest and most important question you face as a product leader
- How you build matters finding your mvp
- Practice defining your mvp
- If you dont get this one thing right all your product research and experiments wont matter
- Just enough statistics to get the product job done
- The 14 most common hypothesis testing mistakes product teams make and how to avoid them
- The 5 components of a good hypothesis
- Lets talk innovation a conversation with tim meaney and teresa torres
- The dos and donts of hypothesis testing
- Know who you are building for and why
- What product assumptions are you making
- Sharing knowledge from customer to product manager
- The high cost of interruptions
- 3 use cases for better communication with kindling
- How to find common ground when engineers dont like features
- Is this a dialogue or a discussion
- What you should clarify and communicate as a product leader
- How to cultivate curiosity and build better products
- Fix delivery to make time for discovery
- Your title doesnt matter
- Taking a team approach to product delivery
- Moving beyond vanity metrics an in depth case study
- The power of gratitude
- More on the facebook social contagion study
- Whats the controversy over the facebook social contagion study
- A hat tip to some great bloggers
- Wow when something resonates
- A small favor please take the 2014 product talk survey
- Google reader is going away on monday dont let product talk go with it
- The 7 core traits of a good product manager
- https://www.producttalk.org/311/
- What do you want to see on product talk in 2013
- Looking back on the first year of product talk
- When helping hurts
- Do one thing well
- Remembering steve
- Measuring the impact of each user story
- So you want to be a product manager
- The most common mistakes people make in product manager interviews
- Dear product manager nobody is looking at your resume
- Youll never be a product manager there choosing the right companies
- To portfolio or not to portfolio
- Moving from user experience to product with laura klein
- Moving from engineering to product management with zaz harris
- Mastering the product manager job search with colin murphy
- Oded korczyn on becoming a product manager
- Gain product management experience by starting right now
- You dont need experience to become a product manager
- Social cognition how i went from no mobile gaming to addicted in 36 hours
- Even knowing the rules why we still cant write stories like pixar
- Why the branchout decline isnt surpising
- What a nobel prize winning physicist can teach us about building great products
- Sharing knowledge from product manager to engineers
- Interesting vs meaningful
- Great product books where to get started