Topic: Discovery
Product Discovery in Roadmaps: Why Your Invisible Discovery Work Keeps Getting Cut
Make Discovery Visible, Measurable, and Defensible
Discovery work is invisible in most roadmaps—which is why it gets cut first and costs you most. Here's how to make discovery visible, measurable, and defensible when stakeholders ask why you're not shipping faster.
Double Diamond: Process Framework, Not Prioritisation—And It Needs a Time-Box
Diverge-Converge Twice Is Great Advice, But Discovery Still Has to End
The Double Diamond describes how to do discovery—diverge, converge, diverge, converge. It's a process framework, not a prioritisation framework. Without time-boxing, it becomes an excuse for endless exploration.
Impact Mapping: Always Think About the User (Because Most Roadmaps Don't)
Goals → Actors → Impacts → Deliverables: The Framework That Stops User-Free Planning
Gojko Adzic's Impact Mapping forces the question most roadmaps ignore: who are we building for, and what behaviour change do we need from them? It's the 'always think about the user' framework that architects desperately need.
Opportunity Solution Trees: Discovery That Maps to Roadmap Reality
Outcomes → Opportunities → Solutions → Experiments (And How It All Becomes OKRs)
Teresa Torres' Opportunity Solution Tree connects outcomes to opportunities to solutions to experiments. It maps directly to RoadmapOne: Outcomes are Objectives, Opportunities and Solutions become Key Results, and we're always running experiments.
From Objectives to Key Results: How Product Managers Lead the Discovery Breakdown
Leadership allocates objectives. Empowered teams define key results. But how does that actually happen? Discovery is the collaborative workshop where product managers facilitate the breakdown from 'Increase retention 65% to 75%' to specific, validated, measurable key results teams commit to delivering. Master this moment—it's where PM leadership matters most.
Time-Boxed Discovery: Why Concentrated Discovery Beats Drip-Drip Validation Every Time
Most teams let discovery drip along for months, creating context switching and unpredictable capacity drain. Time-boxed discovery sprints produce better validation outcomes while making capacity planning honest. Learn why concentrated discovery beats ongoing research—and how to implement it.
7 Common Product Discovery Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)
Avoid the seven most common product discovery mistakes that cause teams to build the wrong things. Learn how to conduct effective discovery that validates assumptions, engages customers, and delivers business value.
Allocating Team Capacity for Product Discovery: How Much Is Enough?
Learn how to allocate the right amount of team capacity to product discovery. Practical frameworks for balancing discovery and delivery based on uncertainty, risk, and product lifecycle stage.
Measuring Product Discovery Success: The Metrics and KPIs That Actually Matter
Learn which product discovery metrics actually matter. Stop counting activities and start measuring validated learning, cycle time, and outcome velocity with practical KPIs that drive better product decisions.
Product Discovery for Remote and Distributed Teams: Making It Work Across Time Zones
Master product discovery with remote and distributed teams. Learn practical strategies for running effective customer interviews, synthesis sessions, and collaborative discovery when your team is spread across locations and time zones.
The Product Manager's Guide to Leading Discovery: Building Team Ownership and Engagement
Master the product manager's most critical leadership role - guiding teams through discovery to break down objectives into key results, building ownership and enthusiasm for outcomes that matter to the business.
Key Result Tagging: Validation Method
Experiments vs Assumptions—The Difference Between Science and Wishful Thinking
Distinguish hypothesis-driven experiments from assumption-based guesses—tag how you're validating key results to expose which teams build on data and which gamble on intuition.