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The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
Written by Dan Olsen
Narrated by Walter Dixon
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The 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 audiobook 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:
Determine your target customers
Identify underserved customer needs
Create a winning product strategy
Decide on your Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Design your MVP prototype
Test your MVP with customers
Iterate rapidly to achieve product-market fit
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, resource.
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 audiobook 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:
Determine your target customers
Identify underserved customer needs
Create a winning product strategy
Decide on your Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Design your MVP prototype
Test your MVP with customers
Iterate rapidly to achieve product-market fit
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, resource.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very good. Well organized. Highly recommended . . . .
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the best books to read and listen to if you wish to learn true path for startup agility
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good book with example to follow. I enjoy listening to the audiobook.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Although like many of us, I thought I knew product development well but I was totally surprised instead.
Could be slightly shorter for my likes, examples are worth it. Ta1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book offers some very insightful and practical information to enable Product Managers and other Product people make the best decisions.
Also a great read for all kinds of Entrepreneurs looking to create great solutions for their customers.
Thanks, Dan Olsen1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great book, but I suggest reading it as it contains lots of formulas.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A must read for Product Managers who want to build awesome products
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A great overview, but the amount of time dedicated to listing tools and the light touch overview of visual design concepts seemed irrelevant.