Title: Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products That Create Customer Value and Business Value
Author: Teresa Torres
Publication date: April 14, 2021 (Product Talk LLC)
Pages: 244
Value for PMs & founders
A practical, repeatable system to make better product decisions daily by building weekly customer touchpoints, working toward outcomes over outputs, mapping the opportunity space, and testing critical assumptions early to de-risk before you build.
Summary
The book operationalizes continuous discovery for product trios (PM/Design/Engineering): start from a clear outcome, use an Opportunity Solution Tree to structure the problem, run regular customer interviews, and assumption-test multiple solutions before committing to delivery. Includes hands-on examples, exercises, and templates.
3 community-reported takeaways (with sources)
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Weekly customer touchpoints by the team are the keystone habit for better decisions. Product Talk+1
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Map opportunities before choosing solutions using the Opportunity Solution Tree to align and prioritize. Product Management Book Summaries+1
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Test assumptions early to shrink value/feasibility risk and iterate faster. Zeda+1
Buy online (FR & international)
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Amazon France (paperback & Kindle). Amazon+1
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FNAC (ebook / marketplace). Fnac+1
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Bookshop.org (US/UK). Bookshop
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Blackwell’s (UK). Blackwell’s
Author of Impact Factories / Co-founder of Shy Robotics and Product Whys / Head of Product at Dassault Systèmes / Engineer passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship
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