Glossary
Continuous Discovery
Talking to customers regularly so learning is ongoing, not a one-time phase.
In short
Continuous discovery is a habit of regular customer contact woven into a team's weekly rhythm rather than treated as a separate phase. By interviewing users and testing ideas continuously, teams keep their understanding current and catch wrong assumptions early, instead of relying on research done months before.
Continuous discovery makes learning a steady habit rather than a project that ends. Teams hold regular customer conversations, often weekly, and feed what they learn straight into decisions about what to build next.
The practice keeps a team close to changing needs and shortens the gap between a wrong assumption and its correction. Kithspark supports this rhythm by keeping a live stream of credited feedback, so teams always have fresh, attributed input to draw on.
Example
A product trio interviews two customers every week and adjusts its backlog as soon as a recurring pain shows up.
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