How to be a Lean Product Developer? @Agile Riga Day 2012

How to be a Lean Product Developer?

Marko TaipaleAgile Riga Day 2012

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Why this topic is important for you?

2 reasons...

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We are wasting time and efforton doing the wrong thing

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16%13%

7%

45%

19%

Features used

SometimesOftenAlwaysNeverRarely

XP2002 CHAOS report

20% valuable

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We do not see the purpose in our workor

We do not know if the work we do has a purpose

53% of us don’t know what the company is trying to achieve

2TBWA North - Study on 2010

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Cycle as fast as possible

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Guide for a lean product developer

1. "Lean" your business ideas

2. Build faster (or not at all!)

3. Measure it!

4. Learn Faster

IDEAS

BUILD

MEASURE

LEARN

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1. "Lean" your business ideas

2. Build faster (or not at all!)

3. Measure it!

4. Learn Faster

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What is a ”business idea”?

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What is a ”business idea”?

This guy is guessing...

It is just a “series of guesses”

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How to communicate your business idea?

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So where is the guess?

Remember this guy?

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How to validate the guesses?

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Customer Development

Customer Discovery

Customer Validation

Customer Creation

Company Building

Problem /Solution Fit

ProposedMVP

ProposedFunnels

Product /Market Fit

Business Model

Sales & MarketingRoadmap

ScaleExecution

ScaleOrganization

ScaleOperations

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Customer Development

Customer Discovery

Customer Validation

Customer Creation

Company Building

Problem /Solution Fit

ProposedMVP

ProposedFunnels

Product /Market Fit

Business Model

Sales & MarketingRoadmap

ScaleExecution

ScaleOrganization

ScaleOperations

Get out of the building!

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Customer Discovery

Customer Validation

Customer Creation

Company Building

Product Development

data, feedback, insights

hypotheses, experiments,

insights

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Customer Discovery

Customer Validation

Customer Creation

Company Building

Product Development

data, feedback, insights

hypotheses, experiments,

insights

Problem Team

Solution Team

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Lean Business Idea - Summary

• Business idea is just a series of guesses

• You can validate the guesses with the help of Customer Development

• Business Model Canvas is effective tool to communicate your business ideas

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1. "Lean" your business ideas

2. Build faster (or not at all!)

3. Measure it!

4. Learn Faster

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The Concept of an inventory

Business case

Development

Testing Deployment

Design

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The Concept of an inventory

Business case

Development

Testing Deployment

Design

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Don’t write the code!

Business case

Development

Testing Deployment

Design

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Don’t write the code!

Business case

Development

Testing Deployment

Design

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Inventory with ATDD

Business case

Development& Test

Deployment

Design

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ArchitectureVisionRealisation

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Inventory with ATDD + JIT Architecture

Business case

Design, Development& Test

Deployment

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Get the stuff from VCS Build & deploy Test & Report

Backup Deploy to production

Monitor & Alert+

Continuous Integration

Continuous Deployment

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Continuous Integration & Deployment

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Inventory with ATDD + JIT Architecture + CD

Business case

Design, Development& ATDD & Continuous

Deployment

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What about design of the product?

• UX

• Business model pivots etc.

• Some inventories are needed - they are actually buffers

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Example value stream

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Summary- Build faster

• Think timing (Just-In-Time)

• Think big, implement small (and fast)

• be aware of the inventory (queues) in your product development process (system)

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1. "Lean" your business ideas

2. Build faster (or not at all!)

3. Measure it!

4. Learn Faster

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What are things we NEED to measure?

• How do you know you’re done?

• How do you know something is more important/valuable than something else?

• How do you know how are you doing?

• How do you choose between two or more solutions?

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Number One Waste?

16%13%

7%

45%

19%

Features used

SometimesOftenAlwaysNeverRarely

XP2002 CHAOS report

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Measuring if it is used

Comments for service offers and requests

Owner: Marko

QUEUE: 1.6.2010READY: 3.6.2010

DONE: 6.6.20105 days

3 days

Size: S

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Levels of monitoringMonitoring

Business

Application

Containers & DB

OS & Services

Hardware

Biz reports

Hearbeat.rb & navigator

Hearbeat.rb & Monit

Monit & Nagios

Monit & Nagios

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Funnel analysis

Acquisition

Activation

Retention

Referral

Revenue

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Testing hypotheses with Split Testing

BA

Acquisition

Activation

Retention

Referral

Revenue

20%

Acquisition

Activation

Retention

Referral

Revenue

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Summary - Measure it

• Measure what matters to you

• Measure to throw away the waste (optimize the whole system)

• Think measuring when implementing the solution

• Measure the business (not only tech)

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1. "Lean" your business ideas

2. Build faster (or not at all!)

3. Measure it!

4. Learn Faster

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Ship it! - learning inventory

Business case

Design, Development& ATDD & Continuous

Deployment

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Amazon: new deployment every 11.6 secondsFacebook: continuous deployment

Flickr: same thingIMVU, KaChing, KISSMetrics...

Elisa, Huitale...Saturday, March 17, 12

Get out of the building

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Testing hypotheses with Split Testing

BA

Acquisition

Activation

Retention

Referral

Revenue

20%

Acquisition

Activation

Retention

Referral

Revenue

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Everything is a guess

So how to formulate that as hypotheses?

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A way of learning

5 whys

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A3 template for problem solving

http://www.crisp.se/lean/a3-template

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Customer Discovery

Customer Validation

Customer Creation

Company Building

Product Development

data, feedback, insights

hypotheses, experiments,

insights

Problem Team

Solution Team

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Summary - Learn faster

• Truth is out there: Ship It & Get out from the building

• Identify root causes and use A3 for problem solving

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Executive summary

• Stop wasting people’s time

• Communicate the purpose to engage people around you

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Marko Taipale@markotaipale

huitale.blogspot.com

marko.taipale@huitale.com

I help companies to improve by showing what I have done, how I have done it and what I have learned about it

I am also a CTO of

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