All Things Product with Teresa and Petra

In one of their most philosophical episodes yet, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres turn product thinking on the discovery practice itself. If you treat the continuous discovery habits as a product — and the organizations that buy training as the customer — do they actually have product-market fit? Teresa runs the idea through her own framework of the four big risks and lands somewhere uncomfortable: the habits work beautifully at the team level, but at the organizational level she’s increasingly unsure they can stick. Boards want predictable, up-and-to-the-right results; executives are rewarded for feeling certain and dictating solutions; and real...

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"...