Remote Discovery – Teresa Torres on The Product Experience

We've heard it again and again – these are odd times; we're not working remotely, we're working during a crisis; this is not the new normal. You're not working the same way, and your customers have different needs than they did a month ago. We turned to Teresa Torres – our first repeat guest! – to come back on to the podcast and chat about how to make sure that, despite everything that's going on, you continue to incorporate discovery into your practice.

Quote of the Episode

Your opportunity space didn't radically shift. What's probably radically shifted is which opportunity is most important right now. Then there's the second piece of it: What's the part of Discovery that's going to stay stable over time? What are we learning from customers that we don't have to worry about learning over and over again, versus what's the part that can be disrupted at any moment?

Listen if you'd like to learn more about

• Remote Working
• Customer Discovery
• Adapting to change

Links mentioned in this episode

• • Follow Teresa on Twitter and LinkedIn, keep up to date with her at ProductTalk and her courses
  • Karl Weick's paper, The Attitude of Wisdom
  • BBC Interviewee interrupted by his children on air

Hosts

The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Lily also founded ProductTank in Bristol, the Product Managers' meetup with regular events and talks on Product now with 800+ members and growing. Now the Product Director at Symec, Lily also runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.

A recovering music journalist and editor, Randy has been working as an interactive producer and product manager across the US and UK for nearly 20 years. After launching Amazon’s music stores in the US and UK, Randy has worked with museums and arts groups, online education, media and entertainment, retail and financial services. He’s held Head of Product roles at HSBC and Sainsbury’s, where he also directed their 100+-person product community. Now a trainer, Discovery and Leadership consultant, he's spoken at Mind the Product Engage (Hamburg and Manchester), the Business of Software, Turing Festival, a number of ProductTanks (London, Zurich, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford, and Brighton… so far!) and at conferences across the US and Europe.

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