Lean Product Discovery - Helps embed Customer Focus into Development Lifecycle

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Customer Focus Embed into Development Lifecycle Venkatesh Prasad [email protected]

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Customer FocusEmbed into Development Lifecycle

Venkatesh [email protected]

Will the Software Sell ??

Sales Team - how to sell the software ? Marketing Team - what marketing plan will succeed ? R&D Management – how to deliver the software on

time? R&D Engineers – how to build the software ? Product Management – how to define product

strategy ?

Who is thinking about the customer?

Is it different in Startups & Enterprises ?

How often do we ask this question ?

How Lean Product Discovery supports selling software ?

Copyright : Eric Ries (theLeanStartup.com)

What were we struggling with?

Catching up to

Competition

Disparate Customer Feedback

Technology Driven Solution

Delayed Customer

Engagement

What improvements did we observe?

Business Value Focus

Working with Uncertainty

Internal Stakeholders Alignment

What metrics did we measure ?

Customer Satisfaction Index

Backlog Item – Sprint Readiness Ratio

Feature Usage Rate

Feature (Penalty/Provision) Ratio

ARR and TR

What did we learn ?

Customer Perception is Reality

Lean Product Discovery is not Agile or Scrum

Team Motivation rejuvenated

Three Questions in every PI

Who am I building this feature/product for ?

Is that person (still) willing to pay for this feature/product ?

Is the time right to improve the user's experience?

THANK YOU