Product discovery coach, author of Continuous Discovery Habits; writes Product Talk.
“Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts We’re back from our summer break! In this first episode of the new season, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres catch up on Product at Heart and dive into the conference’s 2025 theme: curation. From backlogs and customer segments to product”
Teresa Torres recounts a 90-day, self-directed journey building her first AI product, an Interview Coach that gives feedback on customer interviews, which she built while recovering from a broken ankle. She argues that…
Teresa Torres surveys eleven real-world teams using Lovable and similar AI prototyping tools to speed up product discovery. Across stories from design sprints, navigation tests, side projects, job applications and…
Teresa Torres recounts building an AI-powered 'interview coach' that gives students feedback on practice customer interviews, grounded in her Continuous Interviewing course rubric. She describes moving from a…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that product practitioners should trace frameworks and best practices back to their original creators rather than relying on social-media summaries. Simplified takes often dilute the…
Teresa Torres and Hope Gurion continue their series on adopting the product operating model, focusing on resistance from leaders and stakeholders rather than pilot teams. They argue that transformation is…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille address how product managers can choose a coach in a crowded market where thousands of self-described product coaches compete for attention. They argue that red flags such as overpromising…
Teresa Torres and Hope Gurion, both coaches, examine how resistance surfaces on pilot teams during a product operating model rollout, even among volunteers. They identify three common objections: "we don't have time,"…
This podcast episode, hosted by Teresa Torres with Petra Wille, examines the difference between organizations that fund projects and those that fund teams. The conversation argues that project-based funding clashes with…
This podcast episode features Petra Wille explaining her new Product Leadership Wheel, a self-assessment framework that extends her earlier PM Wheel to senior product leaders. It organizes product leadership around 12…
Teresa Torres and Hope Gurion argue that a champion such as a CEO can start a product operating model shift, but it stalls without support from leaders and stakeholders across the company. Pilot teams need managers and…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine whether the wave of AI prototyping tools (Replit, V0, Bolt, Lovable, WindSurf) genuinely helps product discovery work. They argue these tools can rapidly produce interactive…
Teresa Torres and Hope Gurion argue that teams new to outcome-oriented product management lack several hard skills, so leaders must deliberately build them for pilot teams to succeed during an organizational…
This podcast episode tackles Product Operations, a role many organizations find ambiguous. Teresa Torres and Petra Wille explore what product ops is and is not, how it overlaps with HR, agile coaching, and the CPO role…
Teresa Torres and Hope Gurion argue that when shifting to a product operating model, companies should start with a small set of pilot teams rather than training everyone at once, which tends to produce chaos and…
In this podcast episode, host Teresa Torres and guest Petra Wille examine whether every product outcome must be measurable. Torres revisits her long-held view that outcomes should always be metrics and explains why she…
In this podcast episode, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine how people behave in communities, noticing a growing number of members who ask what they can get rather than how they can help. They argue that community…
Teresa Torres answers a reader's question about how often product teams should ship customer value, concluding that weekly or biweekly delivery is an ideal benchmark rather than an immediate requirement. She explains…
This podcast episode asks whether an organization can run a product operating model and a project operating model at the same time. Teresa Torres and Petra Wille contrast the two: project models organize around fixed…
Teresa Torres profiles Chi Phan, a senior PM who was asked to evaluate whether her company should build an API to automate a manual order-fulfillment process between consumers, vendors and her company. Chi used internal…
This podcast episode, hosted by Teresa Torres with guest Petra Wille, argues that saying no is a core product management skill rather than an optional extra. The conversation accepts that there is always more work than…
Teresa Torres profiles Gary Clift, a Senior Director of Product for a travel-industry API, who used continuous discovery habits to address why customers were resisting migration to a new version of his company's API…
In this podcast episode, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine why product leaders underinvest in their own development. They argue the real blockers are less about budget and more about stigma around coaching…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that a giant, messy product backlog is a symptom of unclear filtering rather than a ranking problem. They question whether scoring frameworks like ICE and RICE help when hundreds of…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that many organizations do not have a clearly written product strategy, and that the strategy actually in play is often implicit and revealed by what teams build and learn. They…
Teresa Torres describes how her course business was drowning in manual admin work across several tools, and how a mistake-prone admin process led her to automate using APIs. She explains her approach: pick a single…
This podcast episode features Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discussing how they build conference talks from scratch and how new speakers can get started. They share their distinct processes: Petra works with mind maps…
Teresa Torres argues that API teams need product discovery because customer-facing APIs are products, and gaps in them cost adoption. She identifies six recurring usability problems developers hit when learning a new…
This podcast episode examines how capacity planning, a common quarterly ritual of allocating team time to fixed deliverables, fits within outcome-driven and discovery-first product organizations. The hosts argue that…
Teresa Torres introduces a multi-week series arguing that API teams need more product discovery, and aims to bridge API engineers and discovery practitioners. This installment explains the basics: what an API is, how…