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Example: Core Product Discovery Team
A cross-functional approach to Product Discovery is meant to include a wide variety of perspectives in the early stages where ideas are most flexible.
The Core Product Discovery team consists of the Product Manager, the Designer, a curious Engineer and a few others as needed.
Example: Product Discovery Workflow
There are many ways to accomplish Product Discovery.
This is a sample guide to the collaborative and iterative nature of developing ideas in a way that saves total time to success.
Collaborate before deliverables exist. Iterate before high fidelity. Include an engineer at every step.
Example: Product Discovery Meetings Calendar
View a real calendar from a remote, work from home cross-functional team. They conducted an intensive one week Product Discovery cycle. They started the week learning about the problems and opportunities at hand and finished the week by showing a solution in the form of a design prototype to 6 users.
Articles Archive
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2020
- Mar 27, 2020 PM/UX Thought Leader — Michael Sippey
- Mar 29, 2020 User Experience Mapping — How to Get on the Same Page Quickly
- Mar 29, 2020 Overcome Common Barriers to User Testing
- Mar 29, 2020 Book Review: Sprint
- Mar 29, 2020 Yes, You Can Meet 100 Customers Per Year
- Mar 29, 2020 Book Review: Inspired
- Mar 31, 2020 Product Discovery - User Experience Mapping with Office 365
- Apr 8, 2020 Product Discovery - Collaborative Prototype Building with Figma
- Apr 16, 2020 Make Sure to Communicate in Multiple Ways
- Apr 17, 2020 Communicating Clearly When Working From Home
- Apr 21, 2020 Organize Your Product Team using Airtable
- Apr 21, 2020 Creating User Empathy Within Your Company using FullStory
- Apr 21, 2020 Take the Time to do Deeper User Research
- Apr 22, 2020 Identifying and Recruiting Power Users on Your Site with FullStory
- Apr 22, 2020 Zero Budget User Recruiting and Interviewing
- Apr 22, 2020 Getting Remote Users Relaxed and Ready for Interviews
- Apr 22, 2020 Partnering with Customer Success to Recruit Customers for User Testing
- Apr 22, 2020 Top Websites for Fast User Recruiting
- Apr 23, 2020 Easily Pivot to Remote User Testing
- Apr 24, 2020 How to Handle Customer Feature Requests
- Apr 28, 2020 Example: Product Discovery Meetings Calendar
- Apr 28, 2020 Remote Product Discovery Toolkit
- Jul 17, 2020 How do Product Managers end up being overworked?
- Jul 23, 2020 Have Product Leaders Cut Designers Out of the Design Process?
- Aug 20, 2020 Why Success is a Bad Thing for Product Leaders
- Aug 28, 2020 Stop “protecting” your engineer’s time
- Sep 8, 2020 Improve Conversion by Using a Consumer Decision Tree
- Sep 9, 2020 Be lazy and smart. Find and automate your leading indicators.
- Sep 9, 2020 Make data-driven decisions by turning your vision into a math equation
- Oct 8, 2020 Use “more” Engineer Time Sooner to Reduce Total Engineering Time
- Oct 8, 2020 Example: Product Discovery Workflow
- Oct 16, 2020 Example: Core Product Discovery Team
- Dec 15, 2020 4 Components of a Product Discovery Experiment
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2021
- May 21, 2021 Video: Product Discovery - An approach you'll actually use
- Dec 2, 2021 A Leaner Startup: Learn, Build, Measure
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2022
- Jan 15, 2022 Now What? Making Decisions After Testing Solutions with Users
- Jan 17, 2022 How to Determine a Winner in Solution Test Interviews
- Jan 19, 2022 How to Speed Up Analysis of Solution Test Interviews
- Jan 23, 2022 When to be Proactive in a Solution Test Interview
- Jan 27, 2022 What to Watch for in a Solution Test Interview
- Jan 31, 2022 What to Listen for in a Solution Test Interview
- Feb 4, 2022 How to Kickoff a Successful Solution Test Interview
- Feb 6, 2022 Don’t Say These Things During User Interviews
- Feb 8, 2022 How to Plan a Successful Solution Test Interview
- Feb 12, 2022 How to Recruit Users for a Successful Solution Test Interview
- Feb 16, 2022 Design to Learn. Beware the Completionist Approach.
- Feb 20, 2022 The Product Discovery Valley of Death
- Feb 24, 2022 The Solution Test Interview Explained
- May 2, 2022 Book Review: LOVED
- Aug 17, 2022 Book Review: Good Strategy Bad Strategy
- Dec 29, 2022 Redefining Product Development
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2023
- Jan 12, 2023 What is Success in Product
- Apr 20, 2023 Book Review: The Right It - Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed
- May 22, 2023 An Unsettling Trend: The Analytics-Free Environment
- May 25, 2023 Analytics Transformation: How Leaders Can Avoid the Analytics-Free Environment
- May 25, 2023 A Note on Analytics Design
- May 25, 2023 Making it Easy to Access Data
- May 25, 2023 Case Study: Creating team-level success metrics
- May 25, 2023 How Leaders Can Motivate Teams to Analyze Data
- Oct 9, 2023 Book Review: The Mom Test
- Oct 24, 2023 Facilitation Skills: Avoid Groupthink and One-Sided Discussions
- Nov 7, 2023 Product Ops: Managing Data Analysts
- Nov 8, 2023 Product Leaders: Getting Teams Started with Product Discovery
- Dec 13, 2023 I Don’t Have Time for Product Discovery
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2024
- Mar 22, 2024 How do you know you're successful today?
- Apr 4, 2024 Our Half-Baked Adoption of OKRs
- Apr 13, 2024 The Consultant Technology Stack
- Apr 13, 2024 Use the “Expenses Grinder” to Trim Costs
- May 23, 2024 How to gain executive backing for design and research activities
- Aug 18, 2024 Layers of Product Discovery
- Sep 17, 2024 The 13th month: Product Management's impact on renewals
- Sep 26, 2024 Case Study: Are your renewals a house of cards?
- Oct 10, 2024 Case Study: The Hidden Limits of Optimization
- Oct 10, 2024 Video: When Am I Done Solving a Problem?
- Oct 30, 2024 Learning From the “Outside In”
- Nov 6, 2024 Annual Operating Planning (AOP): A Practical Approach for Product Leaders
- Nov 15, 2024 Video: The Product Manager Trust Journey
Has your Product team created a “pixel perfect” design before even talking to users?
Does the initial design have more than 10 screens?
If so, the designs are overbuilt and too big to learn from.