It is not the customer’s job to know what they want. Steve Jobs.
The main concepts
Five principles behind The Startup Way by Eric Ries:
- Continuous Innovation
- Startup as Atomic Unit of Work
- The missing function
- The second founding
- Continuous Transformation
Limited-liability experiments or MVPs
MVP - O que de fato é um Produto Mínimo Viável.
Leaders must give teams the freedom to create experiments while still holding them to strong accountability standards.
- The best entrepreneurs have the ability to work within constraints.
- Learning to make investments on the basis of evidence, experimentation, and vision - without wasting money on vanity projects - is an extremely difficult yet profoundly important skills.
The Startup State of Mind
Think big, start small. Scale Fast
How the lean startup works
- Identify the beliefs about what muts be true
- Create an experiment to test
- Think like a scientist
- Take the learning from each experiment
- On a regular schedule (cadence), make a decision about whether to make a change in strategy (pivot) or stay the course (persevere).
MVP Questions:
- Do people really have the problem you think they do?
- How do they approach the problem today?
- Is your concept a better alternative for them?
Problem Drivers Identification
- How big is the problem you identified?
- How well did you uncover the main drivers of the problem?
- Would your solution effectively eliminate or reduce the problem?
Solution Ambition, Feasibility & Competitiveness
- Will users be attracted to your solution?
- How scalable is your solution?
- Does your solution exhibit barriers to entry? How can you compete?
MVP (Minimum Viable Prodyct):
- MVP is an experiment not a final decision
- The concept allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning. But have sure > Learning based on real data gathering rather than guesses about the future, about customers.
- Is is a Learning phase not a desperate phase to build something.
- It is a learning-validation cycle moment.
The lean manufacturing concept of “fundamental cycle time” is defined by the time elapsed between receiving an order from the customer and delivering a high-quality product at a good price.
For a startups “Innovation factory”, the fundamental cycle time is defined by how much time elapses between having an idea and validating wheather the idea is brillant or crazy.
The thing about MVP Minimum Viable P is that while you decide what’s minium, the customer decides if it’s Viable.
David Bland.
Minimum Viable Products are optimized for learning, not for scaling. This is one of the hardest things to convey to people who’ve spent their lives building to build, not building to learn.
DO NOT SPEND HOURS BULDING SOMETHING…
MVP is a State of Mind:
- When the mental landscape is shaped by management habits, it’s hard to have a breakthrough. Lean Startup is designed to remove that psychological obstacle.
- The goal is not a MVP that you could possibly build. it is important to consider radically different alternatives.
- There are no set instructions as to what to build as an MVP, as long as it’s something that maximizes learning.
- Do not consider multiple MVPs that test exactly the same assumptions and yet cost dramatically different amounts of money.
MVP must understand what people actually want, not what we think they want.
The GE Lean Beliefs:
- Customers determine our success.
- Stay Lean to go fast.
- Learn and adapt to win.
- Empower and inspire each other.
- Deliver results in an uncertain world.
Key takeaway from Customer Development can best be summed up as: GET OUT OF THE BUILDING….Steve Blank
Leia mais: