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Stanford University

Stanford Seminar - The What and Why of Continuous Discovery, Teresa Torres

Stanford University via YouTube

Overview

Learn how to make informed product decisions through continuous discovery, engage with customers regularly, and automate the recruiting process. Develop skills in defining triggers for support teams, asking the right questions, avoiding speculation, and setting up compare and contrast decisions. The course teaches the Continuous Discovery process, the opportunity solution tree, and the importance of collecting stories. The teaching method includes lectures, discussions, and audience questions. This course is intended for product managers, design leads, tech leads, and anyone involved in product decision-making.

Syllabus

Product Discovery: deciding what to build, Product Delivery: building it.
Continuous Discovery process.
We make product decisions every day.
We need to engage with customers every week.
The product team/trio: Product Manager, Design Lead, Tech Lead.
The opportunity solution tree.
Automate the recruiting process.
Define triggers for your support teams.
Ask the right questions.
Avoid speculation.
Collect stories.
Avoid whether or not ideas.
Set up compare and contrast decisions.
Story maps help us see our assumptions, and prototype.
Feasibility assumptions: research spikes.
Questions from the audience.

Taught by

Stanford Online

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