Here are a few questions you can ask yourself to evaluate your research skills: Is my team learning directly from our users/customers at least once a week? (This is Teresa Torres’s most excellent definition of continuous discovery.) Is every product decision my team makes informed by both business goals and user needs? Is my team regularly using both our product and competing/adjacent products to better understand our users’ needs and behaviors? Do the user needs and goals articulated by my team actually reflect the needs and goals of our users, or just what the business wants those needs and
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