The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer FeedbackThe missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers love The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. This book helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, step-by-step guidance and advice. The Lean Startup movement has contributed new and valuable ideas about product development and has generated lots of excitement. However, many companies have yet to successfully adopt Lean thinking. Despite their enthusiasm and familiarity with the high-level concepts, many teams run into challenges trying to adopt Lean because they feel like they lack specific guidance on what exactly they should be doing. If you are interested in Lean Startup principles and want to apply them to develop winning products, this book is for you. This book describes the Lean Product Process: a repeatable, easy-to-follow methodology for iterating your way to product-market fit. It walks you through how to:
This book was written by entrepreneur and Lean product expert Dan Olsen whose experience spans product management, UX design, coding, analytics, and marketing across a variety of products. As a hands-on consultant, he refined and applied the advice in this book as he helped many companies improve their product process and build great products. His clients include Facebook, Box, Hightail, Epocrates, and Medallia. Entrepreneurs, executives, product managers, designers, developers, marketers, analysts and anyone who is passionate about building great products will find The Lean Product Playbook an indispensable, hands-on resource. |
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... button and leave their email addresses is focused on marketing, because there isn't any product functionality the customer can actually use. You're simply describing the functionality to prospective customers to see how compelling they ...
... button). But quantitative tests will not tell you why they chose to do so or why the other customers chose not to do so. In contrast, qualitative tests are good for learning “why”: the reasons behind different customers' decisions to ...
... button to convert from a prospect to a customer. For example, if you directed 1,000 prospective customers to a landing page with a “sign up” button, and 250 of them clicked it, then your conversion rate would be 25 percent. The ...
... button, which was the only thing that visitors could click. Upon doing so, they were taken to a page that said “You caught us before we're ready.” Then they could enter their email address to be notified when the product launched. As ...
... button,” after which you would show the next static wireframe. Clickable wireframes create a more immersive experience for the user—one where they can independently explore and navigate your product. Plus, because clickable wireframes ...
Contents
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Test Your MVP with Customers Step 6 | 143 |
Iterate and Pivot to Improve | 167 |
An EndtoEnd Lean Product Case Study | 181 |
Contents | 187 |
Build Your Product Using Agile Development | 201 |
Measure Your Key Metrics | 229 |
Use Analytics to Optimize Your Product | 259 |
Acknowledgments | 283 |
Index | 291 |
About the Author | 309 |
Achieving ProductMarket Fit with the Lean | 3 |
Problem Space versus Solution Space | 13 |
Contents | 21 |
Determine Your Target Customer Step 1 | 25 |
Define Your Value Proposition Step 3 | 67 |
Optimization with AB Testing | 272 |
Why Products Fail | xvii |
Specify Your Minimum Viable Product MVP | 77 |
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