Evolution of Agile world with Lean Startup Concepts

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Evolution of Agile world with Lean Startup Concepts

-ShriKant Vashishtha

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About Me!

• Blog – http://www.agilebuddha.com • Twiiter - @vashishthask• Trainer and coach in:

– Scrum (Team, Scrum Master, Product Owner)– Kanban– User story workshop– BDD/ATDD/Specification by Example– Agile Testing– Unit testing (xUnit), Continuous Integration and

Continuous Delivery

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A Traditional Scenario

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Lean Startup Approach

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Minimum Viable

Minimum ViableGood features to test the

users responses

Crappy Products nobody wants to use

The products you want to build

Start with MVP (Minimum Viable Product)

• Smallest possible thing that we can build which will help us to learn if our hypothesis is true.

• The goal of the MVP is to validate hypothesis before committing huge amount of resources to them.

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Introducing “Fake Door”

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Measurement and Validated Learning

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Facebook + Online Shopping

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Why Lean Startup

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9/10 startups fail

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It’s all about building the right product vs building product right

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Feature Waste

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Lean Startup Examples

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What is Lean Startup?

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Lean Startup Principles

• Entrepreneurs are everywhere• Entrepreneurship is management• Validated learning• Innovation accounting• Build-Measure-Learn

ALL successful Startup processes should be geared to accelerate the feedback loop

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A disciplined, scientific and capital efficient method for discovering and building products

and services that people love.- Joshua Kerievsky

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“In a startup, no facts exists inside the building, only opinions.”

-Steve Blank

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“Get outside of the building”

-Steve Blank

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Done – Scrum Style

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Done – Lean Startup Style

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Some learning

Requirements Development QA Release

Very little learning

Most learning happens here

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Some learning

Requirements

Continuous Deployment Release

Most learning happens here

Shorten cycle time

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• Getting value to the business as fast as you possibly can for receiving faster feedback.

• Software always production ready

• Releases tied to business needs, not operational constraints

Continuous Deployment

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Customer Development

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Innovation Accounting

• Innovation Accounting is where you are accounting for – is my MVP any good?

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Validated Learning and Innovation Accounting

• Learning validated via data, surveys, interviews• Demonstrated by positive improvements in startup’s

core metrics.• Innovation Accounting is where you are accounting for

– is my MVP any good?

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Agile Lean StartupAccepted is DONE Validated is new DONE

Full blown feature delivered in the production

Capital efficient way to assess if feature is even needed

User Story Hypothesis (guess)

Backlog To Learn List

Sprint Build-Measure-Learn

Customer feedback Customer validation

Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment

Velocity tracking Innovation accounting

On-site customer “Get out of the building”

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Thank You | Q&A

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