Reference library

Resources & Frameworks

The tools, templates, and reading that serious product teams actually use.

FrameworkDiscovery

The Opportunity Solution Tree

Teresa Torres

Teresa Torres' visual framework for connecting desired outcomes to opportunities, solutions, and experiments. Keeps your team aligned on why you're building what you're building.

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TemplateDiscovery

Jobs-to-be-Done Interview Script

Bob Moesta

A structured interview guide for uncovering the functional, emotional, and social jobs customers are hiring your product to do. Based on the Switch Interview methodology.

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BookResearch

Continuous Discovery Habits

Teresa Torres

Teresa Torres' complete system for making product discovery a weekly habit — not a one-time project. Covers interview cadence, assumption mapping, and experiment design.

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FrameworkPrioritization

RICE Scoring Model

Intercom

Reach × Impact × Confidence ÷ Effort. A simple formula for ranking opportunities and features without letting the loudest voice in the room win.

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BookResearch

The Mom Test

Rob Fitzpatrick

Rob Fitzpatrick's guide to asking customer questions that don't lead the witness. Essential reading before you run your first discovery interview.

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TemplateMetrics

North Star Metric Worksheet

Amplitude

A one-page template for defining your product's North Star Metric — the single number that best captures the value you deliver to customers.

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TemplateDiscovery

Assumption Mapping Canvas

David Bland

Plot your riskiest assumptions on a 2×2 of importance vs. evidence. Tells you exactly what to test first before writing a line of code.

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ArticleAI

AI-Assisted Discovery Playbook

Lenny Rachitsky

How leading product teams are using LLMs to synthesize interview notes, surface patterns across hundreds of data points, and generate experiment hypotheses at scale.

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TemplatePrioritization

Kano Model Analysis Template

Noriaki Kano

Classify features as basic needs, performance drivers, or delighters. Helps you stop over-investing in table-stakes features and find the ones that actually create delight.

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Further Reading

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

Marty Cagan

The definitive guide to modern product management. Cagan's framework for empowered product teams is the foundation this playbook builds on.

Continuous Discovery Habits

Teresa Torres

The practical system for making discovery a weekly habit. Required reading after you finish this playbook.

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

Build-Measure-Learn. The framework that made validated learning the default mode for product teams everywhere.

Competing Against Luck

Clayton Christensen

The definitive book on Jobs-to-be-Done theory. Explains why customers hire products and how to find the job your product is really doing.

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