The Lean Product Guide
The Lean Product Guide
A practitioner's guide to building viable products customers love.
About the Book
This ebook is a curated collection of methods and practices for creating digital products using Agile and Lean principles. At ThoughtWorks we build custom products and work closely with our clients to evolve practices that adapt to their industry and environments. Our coachees told us they don’t have time to read long lengthy books about the theory of lean product development, or to sort through the dozen or so books to understand the basics of building products (strategy, user experience, user research, agile, scrum, kanban, stories, testing, continuous delivery, continuous integration, … the list is long!). They also told us they want a reference guide of information on practical tools, activities and tips that they can follow along. So we created this guide as a curated collection of hand picked techniques, tools and practices for lean product development.You’ll learn how to:
- Deliver customer value faster by reducing time from “concept to cash"
- Validate early product concepts, solutions and features
- Thin slice your product idea to enable frequent releases of value
- Apply lean, six sigma and agile delivery methods for product development
About the Authors
Table of Contents
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- Why did we write a book?
- Who is this book for?
- Contributors
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Lean Product Concepts
- Guiding Principles & Practices of Lean Product
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Bridging Strategy and Execution - The Double Diamond
- The Double Diamond Phases
- Applying The Double Diamond Mind-Set
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Product Development Process
- Types of Product Innovation
- Incremental Innovation
- Evolutionary Innovation
- Revolutionary Innovation
- Deciding On An Approach
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Determining Fit
- Problem-Solution Fit
- Product-Market Fit
- Balancing Business, Customer and Technical Goals
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Hypothesis Driven Product Discovery
- Listing Assumptions and Defining Hypotheses
- Prioritizing Experiments
- Defining MVP & Thin Slicing for Delivery
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Deciding When To pivot
- When To defer or Kill a Product
- When To Ramp Up A Delivery Team
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Making The Case For A Product Idea
- Presenting A Product Idea Pitch
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Lean Product Activities
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Discover
- Stakeholder & Subject Matter Interviews
- Industry, Market & Competitor Research
- Root Cause Analysis
- Customer Interviews
- Interviewing Techniques
- Synthesizing Research Results
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Define
- Product Visioning Workshop
- Concept or Hypothesis Validation
- Relative Prioritization With Customers (card sort)
- Evolutionary Architecture
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Design
- Design Charrettes
- Customer Journey Maps
- Storyboarding
- Facilitated Brainstorming
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Deliver
- Defining MVP & Creating A Story-Map
- User Stories
- Strategic Product Roadmap
- Defining and Tracking Metrics
- Showcase & Feedback Labs
- Project Trade-off Sliders
- Closing Thoughts
- About The Author
- About The Co-Creator
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Discover
- Notes
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