Product Talk · Teresa TorresMay 4, 2026
May 4, 2026 · 6 min
“Continuous Discovery Habits turns five this year. And to celebrate we are reading the book together. Each month, I am releasing an in-depth reading guide that includes: * The chapters we will be reading * A preview of the most important concepts we'll be learning about * Short videos you can”
Product Talk · Teresa TorresJun 5, 2024
Jun 5, 2024 · 16 min
Teresa Torres argues that product trios, small cross-functional teams of product, design, and engineering, should jointly own both discovery (deciding what to build) and delivery. She contrasts this with waterfall…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresFeb 21, 2024
Feb 21, 2024 · 11 min
Teresa Torres argues that continuous customer interviews generate far more learning than teams can hold in their heads, and proposes the interview snapshot as a one-page artifact that captures a single conversation…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresFeb 14, 2024
Feb 14, 2024 · 7 min
Teresa Torres profiles Tali Melchior, Director of Product Management at Texthelp, who introduced opportunity solution trees (OSTs) first at a previous company after a book club, then at Texthelp, and later through…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresDec 6, 2023
Dec 6, 2023 · 25 min
Teresa Torres introduces opportunity solution trees as a visual tool that lets product trios map the paths from a desired outcome to customer opportunities, candidate solutions, and assumption tests. The article argues…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresJun 2, 2021
Jun 2, 2021 · 3 min
Teresa Torres argues that product trios (a product manager, designer, and engineer) struggle to agree when they start from individual preferences and jump straight to solutions. Instead, they should first build a shared…
Lenny’s Podcast67 min
Teresa Torres · Jun 30, 2022
Key learnings- Use the opportunity solution tree: put a measurable outcome at the root, map opportunities as customer needs and pain points…
- Keep opportunities framed in the problem space rather than as disguised solutions; Torres notes most people mistakenly write…
- Collect rich, behavior-based stories in interviews by asking about the last specific instance (e.g., 'tell me about the last…