Articles

15 de July, 2025

How much time should we spend on discovery?

This is one of the most common questions when we talk about discovery: How much time should I spend on it? Days? Weeks? Months? The short […]
8 de July, 2025

Living the Discovery Mindset

I have already written about what I call the “Discovery Misconception #1: thinking that discovery is a process.” In two recent articles, I explain that discovery is […]
3 de June, 2025

Discovery Misconception #4: Thinking that engineering should focus on delivery

I have been presenting “Discovery Misconceptions” at product conferences and in-company talks to my clients, helping them make product discovery more effective. In this talk, I […]
10 de February, 2025

To Build Trust, We Must Stop Rediscovering the Problem

Many times, as product teams, we send out mixed messages without even realizing it. We ask other areas to bring us problems instead of solutions. “Don’t […]
27 de August, 2024

Preface to the new edition of the Startup Guide

Startup Guide, how startups and established companies can create profitable digital products, was the first book I wrote, originally published in 2012, focused on what we […]
20 de December, 2022

The main reason why products fail

If we search on Google for reasons why tech products fail, we will find many articles with many possible reasons explaining product failures. From 3 of […]
7 de December, 2022

Discovery is not a process

It’s pretty common for people who are new to product development to think that product discovery is a process, but we need to understand that’s incorrect. […]
30 de August, 2022

UX and product management

The next area I want to comment on is the UX area which, along with product engineering and product management, forms the core product development team. […]
19 de April, 2022

Another example of an MVD – Minimum Viable Discovery

Lopes is the biggest real estate company in Brazil, where I’m leading the digital transformation efforts. A new hire who came from an e-commerce site mentioned that […]