All Things Product with Teresa and Petra

Everyone’s shouting that AI changes everything. Teresa Torres wrote a LinkedIn “screed” arguing the opposite — and this episode is the debate she and Petra wanted to have about it.

Petra Wille and Teresa Torres work through the spiciest “AI changes everything” claims they’ve heard lately and sort what’s actually new from what was always true. They dig into teams drowning in untested AI-written code (an AI problem, or a team that never had automated testing?), the “Scrum is dead” crowd who quietly renamed their one-week iterations, and the claim that discovery and customer interviews are obsolete now that “delivery...

AI evals feel like a brand-new skill — but the hardest part is a question product teams have always had to answer: what does "good" actually look like?

Petra Wille and Teresa Torres dig into Teresa's recent article on AI evals and the one idea in it that hasn't changed at all. Teresa argues that measuring the quality of AI outputs is really the same work as defining outcomes, writing a PRD, or instrumenting a product — and that teams keep repeating an old mistake: measuring technical performance (uptime, speed, "was it concise?") instead of whether they actually created value...

Team events are making a comeback. After years of remote work and tight budgets, companies are bringing people together again, and many are looking for experiences that go beyond the usual offsite. So should companies deliberately send their people somewhere strange, uncomfortable, and awe-inspiring, and what actually happens to a team when they do?

Petra Wille and Teresa Torres trade stories about the experiences that quietly rewired how they see the world. Petra shares the art-like, genre-bending conferences she attends for "new lenses and new angles," while Teresa recounts the World Domination Summit — and the "one year from now"...

You've got twelve people and one hour booked at next week's offsite. Can someone teach your team to do continuous discovery in that hour? Teresa Torres's answer is a flat no — and this episode is about why.

Petra Wille and Teresa Torres unpack one of the most common requests they get during offsite-and-strategy season: "Can you teach my team continuous discovery in a single session?" Petra often gets requests like this: "We want our product people to take more ownership. Could you do a keynote at our all-hands that gets that going?" The problem, they argue, is a mismatch...