Lean Entrepreneurship presentation with fundamental concepts and including an example on how we built the EISENHOWER.me minimum viable product using oDesk.
31. Request for proposal on oDesk
I am looking for an experienced PHP developer to build Use case
a tiny to-do management web application in the style of 1. Guest visits page
an Eisenhower 2×2 matrix, allowing users to manage 2. Guest enters first to-do in form
their to-dos by importance and urgency. I will be 3. Guest hits save button
providing a HTML5 template with different header 4. Overlay appears, requesting sign up to save
states and overlays, CSS and graphics (please see 5. Guest enters e-mail address (must not be in database already) and chooses a password
preview attached). 6. Overlay says, that e-mail address needs to be confirmed to enable save button
7. Guest confirms his e-mail address by clicking a link in a confirmation request e-mail
Background 8. User account is created, the user is logged in with the ability to save to-do list
Using oDesk, I wish to create a minimum viable product to collect early adopter feedback and 9. User enters to-dos and saves them
further develop this concept towards market needs. Nevertheless, I prefer a clean and smart 10. User leaves page by navigating away or logging out
technical solution, because I would like to have the code maintained as the product scales.
Technical solution
Scope I wish to get a deployment-ready PHP solution with database configuration file. When running, I
The site itself consists of a navigation header, a form which stores all to-dos in a MySQL database expect a user’s save operations to be performed using Ajax without the need to refresh the page.
any time a save button is clicked, and a static footer. On page reload or login, a user’s saved data The same is true for the sign up overlay. Using proven frameworks for PHP (f.e. CakePHP) or
will be retrieved from the database. Users are able to use, sign up for the service, log in and log out JavaScript (f.e. jQuery) to speed up development time is appreciated.
on a single page.
Deployment scenario
Sign-up Linux server, running Ubuntu, Apache and MySQL
Following sign-up with e-mail address and password, an e-mail confirmation request is sent to the
new user. The e-mail address needs to be confirmed before the corresponding user account is
finally set-up and the ability to save the to-do list gets enabled.
32. Refined specification and e-mail conversations
http://de.slideshare.net/kwiat/todos-specification
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Who are our Key Partners? What Key Activities do our Value Propositions require? What value do we deliver to the customer? What type of relationship does each of our Customer For whom are we creating value?
Who are our key suppliers? Our Distribution Channels? Which one of our customer’s problems are we helping to solve? Segments expect us to establish and maintain with them? Who are our most important customers?
Which Key Resources are we acquiring from partners? Customer Relationships? What bundles of products and services are we offering to each Customer Segment? Which ones have we established?
Which Key Activities do partners perform? Revenue streams? Which customer needs are we satisfying? How are they integrated with the rest of our business model?
How costly are they?
What Key Resources do our Value Propositions require? Through which Channels do our Customer Segments
Our Distribution Channels? Customer Relationships? want to be reached?
Revenue Streams? How are we reaching them now?
How are our Channels integrated?
Which ones work best?
Which ones are most cost-efficient?
How are we integrating them with customer routines?
What are the most important costs inherent in our business model? For what value are our customers really willing to pay?
Which Key Resources are most expensive? For what do they currently pay?
Which Key Activities are most expensive? How are they currently paying?
How would they prefer to pay?
How much does each Revenue Stream contribute to overall revenues?
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The Lean Startup method teaches you how to drive a startup-how to steer, when to turn, and when to persevere-and grow a business with maximum acceleration.”\n
A startup is an institution, not just a product, so it requires management, a new kind of management specifically geared to its context. A startup IS NOT a small version of an established company!!!\n
Too many startups begin with an idea for a product that they think people want. They then spend months, sometimes years, perfecting that product without ever showing the product, even in a very rudimentary form, to the prospective customer. When they fail to reach broad uptake from customers, it is often because they never spoke to prospective customers and determined whether or not the product was interesting. When customers ultimately communicate, through their indifference, that they don't care about the idea, the startup fails.\n
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The Lean Startup methodology has as a premise that every startup is a grand experiment that attempts to answer a question. The question is not "Can this product be built?" Instead, the questions are "Should this product be built?" and "Can we build a sustainable business around this set of products and services?"\nThis experiment is more than just theoretical inquiry; it is a first product. If it is successful, it allows a manager to get started with his or her campaign: enlisting early adopters, adding employees to each further experiment or iteration, and eventually starting to build a product.\n\n\n
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The riskiest assumptions are those extremely important pieces of your business model that will fail your startup\n
- Customer\n - Problem\n - Solution\n Write hypothesis for all of the areas above.\n \n \n \n
Startup success can be engineered by following the process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.” Eric Ries\nUsing the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously.”\n\n\n
Actionable Over Vanity Metrics\nInnovation accounting - measure your way to success\n\n
Once the MVP is established, a startup can work on tuning the engine. This will involve measurement and learning and must include actionable metrics that can demonstrate cause and effect question.\nContinuous improvement (techies call it deployment)\nThe startup will also utilize an investigative development method called the "Five Whys"-asking simple questions to study and solve problems along the way. When this process of measuring and learning is done correctly, it will be clear that a company is either moving the drivers of the business model or not. If not, it is a sign that it is time to pivot or make a structural course correction to test a new fundamental hypothesis about the product, strategy and engine of growth. Pivot - Change of direction (strategy, product of growth)\n\n
Overall product development philosophy\n
In software engineering, continuous integration (CI) implements continuous processes of applying quality control — small pieces of effort, applied frequently. Continuous integration aims to improve the quality of software, and to reduce the time taken to deliver it, by replacing the traditional practice of applying quality control after completing all development.\n
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By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.” It will have solved real problems and offer detailed specifications for what needs to be built.\n
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