Collaboration & Stakeholder Rituals
Make discovery a team sport. Set up simple rituals with design, engineering, and stakeholders so learning turns into decisions. Use clear readouts, short demos, and a decision log. Keep it lightweight, repeatable, and tied to outcomes, not theater.
Lessons
Discovery is a contact sport
How to run a weekly discovery review
How to use the product trio effectively
How to invite observers without derailing sessions
How to run discovery demos
How to write tight weekly readouts
Set evidence thresholds upfront
How to create a decision log that people actually use
How to create stakeholder maps and set expectations
How to run a no-drama alignment check
How to use video clips for executive presentations
How to run discovery office hours
One channel for discovery updates
How to run purposeful field shadowing
How to bring legal and privacy teams in early
How to run engineer-in-the-loop discovery
How to run designer-led synthesis huddles
What is meeting sprawl and why it kills teams?
How to build effective rituals for remote teams
How to create weekly stakeholder digests
Understanding the no surprises policy
How to handle stakeholder disagreements
How to stop scope creep in discovery
How to tie rituals to outcomes
How to set up discovery guardrails with leaders
How to escalate risks with receipts
How to partner with Sales and CS without bias
How to run a discovery kickoff for new quarters
ritual fatigue: when to prune
How to close the loop after decisions
How to create time-saving templates for product meetings
Part of Product Discovery
Master product discovery: methods, cadence, and opportunity mapping that turn insights into action.
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Discovery Principles & Operating System
Set up the habits, roles, rules, and rhythms that make discovery continuous.
Recruiting System & Sampling
Build a repeatable system to find, screen, schedule, and maintain the right participants every week.
Discovery Methods Toolbox
Pick the right research method for the question. Learn how to run interviews, surveys, product data checks, quick prototypes, diary studies, and usability tests.
Insight Pipeline & Repository (AI-assist)
Build a clean insight pipeline from capture to synthesis, then store findings in a simple, searchable repository.
Opportunity Mapping Methods
Turn raw insights into a clear map of opportunities that tie to outcomes.
Assumption Mapping & Risk Reduction
Identify what must be true for your idea to succeed, map those assumptions by importance and evidence, then run the smallest tests that can break the risky ones first.
From Insight to Bets
Turn solid insights into clear product bets. You'll learn how to write a short opportunity brief, frame falsifiable hypotheses, set success and guardrail metrics.
Discovery Governance & KPIs
Put light structure around discovery so teams make better decisions without red tape.
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