Discovery

& Design Thinking

Learn to understand customer needs, validate assumptions, explore ideas and build better products through hands-on Product Discovery and Design Thinking methods, supported by practical tools and AI. We will be working on miro.

DURATION
2 Days
Live, facilitated sessions.
DELIVERY
Online or onsite
Interactive and Fun!
GROUP
Max 18 people
Two experienced trainers
FORMAT
Company - internal
Tailored to your Team
THE TRAINING

Discover what matters.
Before you build.

Modern product development takes more than efficient delivery. Teams need a shared way to understand problems, explore possibilities and test their assumptions before investing in a solution.

This hands-on training brings the mindset, methods and practical tools together. You'll work through a discovery cycle with other participants and connect what you learn to the realities of your own organization.

Built on the Discovery School approach developed at OTTO, with real-world practice at the centre.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

From a good question
to a better decision.

Practical skills to use in your next product conversation, experiment or discovery.

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Balance discovery and delivery.

Understand how discovery supports modern product development and how to connect learning with the work your team delivers.

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Understand your customers.

Identify customer needs, challenge assumptions, and frame the right problems before jumping to solutions.

03
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Explore and validate ideas.

Use Design Thinking, experiments, and AI-supported tools to explore possibilities and test your assumptions.

04
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Turn insights into decisions.

Translate research and validation results into actionable next steps for your product and team.

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Use AI with intention.

Explore how AI can support and accelerate discovery while keeping people responsible for interpreting evidence and making decisions.

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Bring discovery into daily work.

Build a collaborative discovery mindset and find practical ways to get started, even when the full process does not fit your context. Copy

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Something useful to take with you.

Leave with more than inspiration: ready-to-use Miro templates, practical AI prompts, a Product Discovery methods toolkit, workshop slides and resources, and a certificate of participation.
Everything you need to put your learning into practice with your team.

For people who want to build better products.

Whether you work in product, design, technology or coaching, this training helps you turn assumptions into evidence and evidence into better decisions.

Product People

Product Managers, Product Owners and Product Analysts who want to make more informed product decisions.

Design & tech teams

UX/UI Designers, Developers and Tech Leads who want to validate ideas before building solutions.

Coaches & facilitators

Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters and facilitators who want to help teams develop a discovery mindset.
MEET YOUR TRAINERS

Experience, curiosity    
and practical perspective.

Portrait of Sabrina Hauptman, Agile Leadership and Team Coach at ally.

Sabrina Hauptman

Agile Leadership and Team Coach

Sabrina brings 13+ years of experience helping global teams discover, design and deliver products. Her approach combines product strategy, neuroscience and coaching to help people think, decide and collaborate.

Portrait of Wolf Brüning, UX Designer and Product Discovery Coach at ally.

Wolf Brüning

UX Designer & Product Discovery Coach

Wolf brings 20+ years of experience in user experience and digital product development. He co-founded OTTO’s Discovery School and continues to teach and mentor teams in user-centred product discovery.

A shared foundation in Discovery School.

In 2015, Sabrina and Wolf co-founded the Product Discovery School at OTTO.
This training brings that practical learning approach to people and teams beyond OTTO.