Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value Paperback – April 14, 2021

Teresa Torres delivers a practical, no-nonsense guide to continuous discovery that every product manager should read. She breaks down the process of customer discovery into simple, repeatable habits that drive better decision-making and product outcomes. The book is packed with actionable frameworks, real-world examples, and clear explanations that make it easy to implement.What sets this book apart is its focus on making discovery a continuous practice rather than a one-time research effort. If you want to build products that truly solve user problems, this book is invaluable. Highly recommended!

In a PM library, Teresa's CDH book should rank #2 on the most-wanted list (Marty Cagan's Inspired is #1).Given the vastly increasing set of resources and books in the PM space, this is indeed a bold statement but IMO, this is well deserved.As a PM practitioner, I'm grateful that such an important topic (product discovery!) has met such a brilliant, structured, and systematic mind in Teresa. The book is comprehensive on the topic, starting with history, then foundational principles, and delving into all the practical aspects of practice. Teresa’s clarity of thought gives her writing perfect nuance, and the content is never over-stated nor does she make any overly broad sweeping claims.What makes her advice in the book so powerful is that the book is built on years / decades of practice. She is not just a teacher, but a coach - who in real life helps product teams across industries / companies / company stages & sizes implement these principles daily. This makes her advice very practical and pragmatic - just what you need to start making wins in your workplace tomorrow, while over time winning converts to a better way of working.This is a book for the entire product team, especially the product trio i.e., the product manager, designer, and technical lead. I have already made improvements in the way we approach product discovery, and my team loves me for it!I also enjoyed the audio-book as well, which was narrated by Teresa herself. Did not skip a second, and re-listened to many sections. Great investment!To people like Teresa (& Marty), I have only 2 things to say: Thank you, and I wonder what you will write about next?

Bought this to improve my product management skills and build better user-centered habits.What I like• Easy to follow with clear, real-world examples• Focuses on mindset shifts, not just tools or processes• Teaches how to talk to users regularly without slowing down deliveryWhat could be better• Some concepts get repetitive after the first few chapters• Could use more examples from non-tech industriesBottom line: A must-read for product managers wanting to build what users actually need. Perfect for PMs at startups or growth-stage teams, but look at Lean Product and Lean Analytics if you want more on metrics and experiments.

One of the very few books that teaches product discovery in practice. A huge thanks to Teresa for authoring it.

I picked this book up because I was interested in improving research techniques and workflows.It did an excellent job describing an effective framework for product teams to use when building products for customers. The decision-making strategy is completely agnostic and could be applied to basically any industry. It's very accessible and easy to understand.The anti-pattern chapter summaries are a huge help if you want to share the book with colleagues who might benefit from the content, but may not be product leads.It makes a very compelling argument for adoption, so if there are any VP or C-Suite people looking for ways to reduce risk, build better products, and need a very manageable primer, this is an excellent book.SECOND EDITION REQUEST: One thing that might have helped is offering some insight on project organization or software that could support each stage of the process.Truly, the approaches are powerfully simple, post-its and whiteboards are more than adequate to start. But as more information is gathered, you might soon outgrow your whiteboard. I can see where making sure research/feedback/decisions remain searchable and intelligible from Day 1 to Year 5 will become more important.I know recommendations can get dangerously close to endorsement, or worse yet, creating a "right way" mentality that's strongly discouraged throughout the book. But it would be interesting to know how mature teams grew into their tooling solutions.