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Lean Startup Tools for
Agile Product Teams
	
  
Meet the Presenter
Raj Indugula
•  VP of Technology, LitheSpeed, LLC
•  Enterprise application development
background (17 years)
•  10 years of Agile experience
•  Currently engaged with an Agile
transformation initiative in the federal
space
2
Agenda
•  Agile & The Lean Startup Movement
•  Holistic Discovery
•  Risk-driven Product Backlog
•  Exploratory Sprints
•  Data-driven Sprint Review
•  Validating Product Increment
3
Agile & The Lean Startup
Movement
Risks of Agile
1.  Backlog items are not always
validated against true end-
user needs
2.  Critical reliance on a fallible
Product Owner
3.  Lack of clear advice on how
and when to “pivot”
4.  IT bias… fall back on what
we know: build, build, build
5
Lean Startup Movement – A Brief History
•  Steve Blank coined “customer discovery”
in the book “Four Steps to the Epiphany”
•  Steve funded Eric Ries’s startup company
IMVU in 2004
•  In 2010, Alex Osterwalder
wrote “Business Model
Generation”
•  In 2011, Eric wrote “The Lean
Startup”
6
Lean Discovery + Agile Delivery Illustrated
Holis'c	
  	
  
Discovery	
  
List	
  Market,	
  
Customer,	
  
Product	
  risks	
  
Illustrate	
  
business	
  
model/case	
  
Risk-­‐driven	
  Product	
  
Backlog	
  
Priori'ze	
  by	
  
riskiest	
  
assump'on	
  
Include	
  
valida'on	
  
mechanisms	
  
Exploratory	
  	
  
Sprints	
  
Team	
  
intercepts	
  
users	
  
Team	
  helps	
  
design	
  
experiments	
  
Data-­‐driven	
  	
  
Sprint	
  Review	
  
Review	
  experiment	
  
results	
  
Pivot,	
  Persevere,	
  
Punt	
  
Scan	
  for	
  new	
  
opportuni'es	
  
Valida'ng	
  
Product	
  Increment	
  
Measure	
  key	
  
usage	
  paJerns	
  
Focus	
  MVP	
  on	
  
early	
  adopters	
  
DISCOVERY	
  
Holistic Discovery
Assessing key customers, problems & markets
Holis'c	
  	
  
Discovery	
  
List	
  Market,	
  
Customer,	
  
Product	
  risks	
  
Illustrate	
  
business	
  
model/case	
  
Risk-­‐driven	
  
Product	
  Backlog	
  
Exploratory	
  	
  
Sprints	
  
Data-­‐driven	
  	
  
Sprint	
  Review	
  
Valida'ng	
  
Product	
  
Increment	
  
Itera've	
  Risk	
  Management	
  
• Are we solving a substantial problem?
• What are our technical challenges?
	
  
	
  
Product	
  
Risk	
  
• Who are our ideal customers?
• Do we understand their
needs?
Customer	
  Risk	
  
• Do we have a viable
market niche?
• Are we better than
the competition?
Market	
  Risk	
  
9	
  
Problem Interview
Talk with early adopters
to learn whether they
share your perception of
the problem.
This is a sample interview
script to validate & rank
problems with users.
10	
  
Thanks to Ash Maurya, author of Running Lean for this format:
http://www.runningleanhq.com/
Discovering Customer Needs
[In]validate your assumptions by:
11	
  
•  Interviewing users
•  Observing users in their native
environments
•  Manually simulating your
system (“concierge”)
•  Rapid usability testing
•  Tracking behavior of customer
cohorts (related groups)
Validation Board for Experimentation
12 hJps://www.leanstartupmachine.com/valida'onboard/	
  
Plan and track experiments to test your assumptions about customers,
problems & solutions. Pivot based upon the results that you see.
Adjusting the Plan
Based on what you learn, you might:
•  Stick to the plan
•  Target another customer group
•  Target a different need
•  Expand or contract feature focus
•  Change platforms or architecture
•  Change channels
•  Kill the idea entirely
Persevere, pivot or punt.
13
Lean	
  Canvas	
  to	
  draQ	
  your	
  Business	
  Model	
  
Thanks	
  to	
  Ash	
  Maurya,	
  Leanstack.com	
  14
Draft your business case in a simple, single-page format, and adjust
based upon the results of your interviews, prototypes and releases.
Example	
  Lean	
  Canvas	
  for	
  Sensei	
  
Sensei	
  is	
  an	
  Agile	
  retrospecDve	
  tool	
  by	
  LitheSpeed.	
  	
  www.senseitool.com	
  
Risk-Driven Product Backlog
Challenging & testing your assumptions
Holis'c	
  	
  
Discovery	
  
Risk-­‐driven	
  
Product	
  Backlog	
  
Priori'ze	
  by	
  
riskiest	
  
assump'on	
  
Include	
  
valida'on	
  
mechanisms	
  
Exploratory	
  	
  
Sprints	
  
Data-­‐driven	
  	
  
Sprint	
  Review	
  
Valida'ng	
  
Product	
  
Increment	
  
The	
  MVP	
  
A “Minimum Viable Product” might be:
•  Learning: Onsite observation, fake menus, ads
•  Pitching: Preorders, comparisons, joint design
•  Experiencing: Concierge, prototypes
Early releases focus on quickly &
cheaply testing ideas.
Later	
  releases	
  
focus	
  on	
  scaling.
17
Unbounce	
  for	
  Landing	
  Pages	
  
You can create dynamic landing pages that help you tune your pitch
and garner pre-orders with tools like Unbounce.
MVP	
  
Pivot	
  Key	
  
DifferenDators	
  
Flexibility	
  &	
  
Safety	
  
Scaling	
  &	
  
OpDmizaDon	
  
Story	
  A1	
  
A2	
  
A3	
  
B1	
  
B2	
  
C1	
  
C2	
  
C3	
  
D1	
  
D1	
  
D2	
  
B3	
  
Epic	
  1	
   Epic	
  2	
  
Key	
  
Ac'vity	
  
Major	
  
Component	
  
Plan	
  Releases	
  &	
  Pivots	
  with	
  a	
  Story	
  Map	
  
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Exploratory Sprints
Quick, cheap ways to validate your approach
Holis'c	
  	
  
Discovery	
  
Risk-­‐driven	
  
Product	
  Backlog	
  
Exploratory	
  	
  
Sprints	
  
Team	
  
intercepts	
  
users	
  
Team	
  helps	
  
design	
  
experiments	
  
Data-­‐driven	
  	
  
Sprint	
  Review	
  
Valida'ng	
  
Product	
  
Increment	
  
Concierge	
  to	
  Test	
  without	
  Coding	
  
A manual simulation of your product or service.
Balsamiq	
  Mockups	
  for	
  Low-­‐Fi	
  Prototyping	
  
hJp://balsamiq.com/products/mockups/	
  
Test layouts and flows without coding or graphic design.
Data-Driven Sprint Review
Using data to drive decisions
Holis'c	
  	
  
Discovery	
  
Risk-­‐driven	
  
Product	
  
Backlog	
  
Exploratory	
  	
  
Sprints	
  
Data-­‐driven	
  	
  
Sprint	
  Review	
  
Review	
  experiment	
  
results	
  
Pivot,	
  Persevere,	
  Punt	
  
Scan	
  for	
  new	
  
opportuni'es	
  
Valida'ng	
  
Product	
  
Increment	
  
Lean	
  Canvas	
  as	
  Dynamic	
  Dashboard	
  
24	
  
Think	
  of	
  your	
  project	
  
as	
  a	
  set	
  of	
  small	
  
experiments.	
  
	
  
The	
  results	
  of	
  these	
  
experiments	
  should	
  
be	
  simply	
  stated	
  and	
  
reviewed	
  regularly	
  
to	
  guide	
  decisions	
  
about	
  product	
  
direc'on.	
  
Thanks	
  to	
  Ash	
  Maurya,	
  author	
  of	
  Running	
  Lean:	
  
hJp://www.runningleanhq.com/	
  
“Pirate”	
  Metrics	
  &	
  Customer	
  Funnels	
  
25	
  
AcquisiDon	
  
AcDvaDon	
  
RetenDon	
  
Revenue	
  
Referral	
  
How many users are interested and find you?
Preorders, signups, ad responses
How is their experience when they do?
Successful runs through key use case
Do they stick around for the long run?
30, 60, 90 day retention by cohort
Do they pay?
Ratio of paying users or ROI
Do they tell their friends?
Successful recommendations
Thanks to Dave McClure
http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pirates-long-version
Validating Product Increment
Analyzing & evolving your production system
Holis'c	
  	
  
Discovery	
  
Risk-­‐driven	
  
Product	
  Backlog	
  
Exploratory	
  	
  
Sprints	
  
Data-­‐driven	
  	
  
Sprint	
  Review	
  
Valida'ng	
  
Product	
  
Increment	
  
Measure	
  key	
  
usage	
  
paJerns	
  
Focus	
  MVP	
  
on	
  early	
  
adopters	
  
Quan'ta've	
  A/B	
  &	
  MulDvariate	
  TesDng	
  
Split (A/B) testing randomly presents users with competing
versions of specific application pages and features.
•  See what works best by running parallel experiments
•  Choose the winning option after appropriate time
Header	
  
Sign	
  up	
  
form	
  
Demo	
  
movie	
  
Story	
  
Header	
  
Sign	
  up	
  
form	
  
Demo	
  
movie	
  
Story	
  
58%	
  of	
  visitors	
  
signed	
  up	
  
35%	
  of	
  visitors	
  
signed	
  up	
  
A	
   B	
  
A/B	
  Tes'ng	
  Sensei	
  with	
  OpDmizely	
  
We	
  found	
  a	
  60%	
  increase	
  in	
  registraDons	
  just	
  from	
  adding	
  the	
  
term	
  “distributed	
  teams”	
  to	
  our	
  landing	
  page.	
  
Zopim	
  Live	
  Chat	
  	
  
We	
  envisioned	
  live	
  chat	
  to	
  be	
  largely	
  a	
  help	
  tool,	
  but	
  it	
  ended	
  
up	
  connecDng	
  us	
  with	
  our	
  most	
  passionate	
  early	
  adopters.	
  
Thank You!
AddiDonal	
  Learning	
  Opportuni'es	
  
•  Lean Startup in the Enterprise Meetup
Monthly at LitheSpeed office in Herndon, VA
•  Lean Startup Machine
Travels nationwide
•  Lean Startup Conference
Annually in San Francisco
•  Lean + Agile Practitioner’s Forum
Coming soon!
Reading	
  List	
  –	
  Lean	
  	
  Agile	
  Innova'on	
  
•  Running Lean – Maurya
•  Essential Scrum – Rubin
•  The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer
Development – Vlaskovits
•  The Lean Startup – Ries
•  Discover to Deliver – Gottesdiener
•  The Other Side of Innovation – Govindarajan
•  Four Steps to the Ephiphany – Blank
•  Business Model Generation – Osterwalder
Contact Us for Further Information
33
Raj Indugula
LitheSpeed
raj.indugula@lithespeed.com
On the Web:
http://www.lithespeed.com
I only wish I had read this book when I started my career in
software product management, or even better yet, when I was
given my first project to manage. In addition to providing an
excellent handbook for managing with agile software
development methodologies, Managing Agile Projects offers a
guide to more effective project management in many business
settings.
John P. Barnes, former Vice President of Product Management at
Emergis, Inc.

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Leanstartuptoolsforproductowners

  • 1. Lean Startup Tools for Agile Product Teams  
  • 2. Meet the Presenter Raj Indugula •  VP of Technology, LitheSpeed, LLC •  Enterprise application development background (17 years) •  10 years of Agile experience •  Currently engaged with an Agile transformation initiative in the federal space 2
  • 3. Agenda •  Agile & The Lean Startup Movement •  Holistic Discovery •  Risk-driven Product Backlog •  Exploratory Sprints •  Data-driven Sprint Review •  Validating Product Increment 3
  • 4. Agile & The Lean Startup Movement
  • 5. Risks of Agile 1.  Backlog items are not always validated against true end- user needs 2.  Critical reliance on a fallible Product Owner 3.  Lack of clear advice on how and when to “pivot” 4.  IT bias… fall back on what we know: build, build, build 5
  • 6. Lean Startup Movement – A Brief History •  Steve Blank coined “customer discovery” in the book “Four Steps to the Epiphany” •  Steve funded Eric Ries’s startup company IMVU in 2004 •  In 2010, Alex Osterwalder wrote “Business Model Generation” •  In 2011, Eric wrote “The Lean Startup” 6
  • 7. Lean Discovery + Agile Delivery Illustrated Holis'c     Discovery   List  Market,   Customer,   Product  risks   Illustrate   business   model/case   Risk-­‐driven  Product   Backlog   Priori'ze  by   riskiest   assump'on   Include   valida'on   mechanisms   Exploratory     Sprints   Team   intercepts   users   Team  helps   design   experiments   Data-­‐driven     Sprint  Review   Review  experiment   results   Pivot,  Persevere,   Punt   Scan  for  new   opportuni'es   Valida'ng   Product  Increment   Measure  key   usage  paJerns   Focus  MVP  on   early  adopters   DISCOVERY  
  • 8. Holistic Discovery Assessing key customers, problems & markets Holis'c     Discovery   List  Market,   Customer,   Product  risks   Illustrate   business   model/case   Risk-­‐driven   Product  Backlog   Exploratory     Sprints   Data-­‐driven     Sprint  Review   Valida'ng   Product   Increment  
  • 9. Itera've  Risk  Management   • Are we solving a substantial problem? • What are our technical challenges?     Product   Risk   • Who are our ideal customers? • Do we understand their needs? Customer  Risk   • Do we have a viable market niche? • Are we better than the competition? Market  Risk   9  
  • 10. Problem Interview Talk with early adopters to learn whether they share your perception of the problem. This is a sample interview script to validate & rank problems with users. 10   Thanks to Ash Maurya, author of Running Lean for this format: http://www.runningleanhq.com/
  • 11. Discovering Customer Needs [In]validate your assumptions by: 11   •  Interviewing users •  Observing users in their native environments •  Manually simulating your system (“concierge”) •  Rapid usability testing •  Tracking behavior of customer cohorts (related groups)
  • 12. Validation Board for Experimentation 12 hJps://www.leanstartupmachine.com/valida'onboard/   Plan and track experiments to test your assumptions about customers, problems & solutions. Pivot based upon the results that you see.
  • 13. Adjusting the Plan Based on what you learn, you might: •  Stick to the plan •  Target another customer group •  Target a different need •  Expand or contract feature focus •  Change platforms or architecture •  Change channels •  Kill the idea entirely Persevere, pivot or punt. 13
  • 14. Lean  Canvas  to  draQ  your  Business  Model   Thanks  to  Ash  Maurya,  Leanstack.com  14 Draft your business case in a simple, single-page format, and adjust based upon the results of your interviews, prototypes and releases.
  • 15. Example  Lean  Canvas  for  Sensei   Sensei  is  an  Agile  retrospecDve  tool  by  LitheSpeed.    www.senseitool.com  
  • 16. Risk-Driven Product Backlog Challenging & testing your assumptions Holis'c     Discovery   Risk-­‐driven   Product  Backlog   Priori'ze  by   riskiest   assump'on   Include   valida'on   mechanisms   Exploratory     Sprints   Data-­‐driven     Sprint  Review   Valida'ng   Product   Increment  
  • 17. The  MVP   A “Minimum Viable Product” might be: •  Learning: Onsite observation, fake menus, ads •  Pitching: Preorders, comparisons, joint design •  Experiencing: Concierge, prototypes Early releases focus on quickly & cheaply testing ideas. Later  releases   focus  on  scaling. 17
  • 18. Unbounce  for  Landing  Pages   You can create dynamic landing pages that help you tune your pitch and garner pre-orders with tools like Unbounce.
  • 19. MVP   Pivot  Key   DifferenDators   Flexibility  &   Safety   Scaling  &   OpDmizaDon   Story  A1   A2   A3   B1   B2   C1   C2   C3   D1   D1   D2   B3   Epic  1   Epic  2   Key   Ac'vity   Major   Component   Plan  Releases  &  Pivots  with  a  Story  Map   19
  • 20. Exploratory Sprints Quick, cheap ways to validate your approach Holis'c     Discovery   Risk-­‐driven   Product  Backlog   Exploratory     Sprints   Team   intercepts   users   Team  helps   design   experiments   Data-­‐driven     Sprint  Review   Valida'ng   Product   Increment  
  • 21. Concierge  to  Test  without  Coding   A manual simulation of your product or service.
  • 22. Balsamiq  Mockups  for  Low-­‐Fi  Prototyping   hJp://balsamiq.com/products/mockups/   Test layouts and flows without coding or graphic design.
  • 23. Data-Driven Sprint Review Using data to drive decisions Holis'c     Discovery   Risk-­‐driven   Product   Backlog   Exploratory     Sprints   Data-­‐driven     Sprint  Review   Review  experiment   results   Pivot,  Persevere,  Punt   Scan  for  new   opportuni'es   Valida'ng   Product   Increment  
  • 24. Lean  Canvas  as  Dynamic  Dashboard   24   Think  of  your  project   as  a  set  of  small   experiments.     The  results  of  these   experiments  should   be  simply  stated  and   reviewed  regularly   to  guide  decisions   about  product   direc'on.   Thanks  to  Ash  Maurya,  author  of  Running  Lean:   hJp://www.runningleanhq.com/  
  • 25. “Pirate”  Metrics  &  Customer  Funnels   25   AcquisiDon   AcDvaDon   RetenDon   Revenue   Referral   How many users are interested and find you? Preorders, signups, ad responses How is their experience when they do? Successful runs through key use case Do they stick around for the long run? 30, 60, 90 day retention by cohort Do they pay? Ratio of paying users or ROI Do they tell their friends? Successful recommendations Thanks to Dave McClure http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pirates-long-version
  • 26. Validating Product Increment Analyzing & evolving your production system Holis'c     Discovery   Risk-­‐driven   Product  Backlog   Exploratory     Sprints   Data-­‐driven     Sprint  Review   Valida'ng   Product   Increment   Measure  key   usage   paJerns   Focus  MVP   on  early   adopters  
  • 27. Quan'ta've  A/B  &  MulDvariate  TesDng   Split (A/B) testing randomly presents users with competing versions of specific application pages and features. •  See what works best by running parallel experiments •  Choose the winning option after appropriate time Header   Sign  up   form   Demo   movie   Story   Header   Sign  up   form   Demo   movie   Story   58%  of  visitors   signed  up   35%  of  visitors   signed  up   A   B  
  • 28. A/B  Tes'ng  Sensei  with  OpDmizely   We  found  a  60%  increase  in  registraDons  just  from  adding  the   term  “distributed  teams”  to  our  landing  page.  
  • 29. Zopim  Live  Chat     We  envisioned  live  chat  to  be  largely  a  help  tool,  but  it  ended   up  connecDng  us  with  our  most  passionate  early  adopters.  
  • 31. AddiDonal  Learning  Opportuni'es   •  Lean Startup in the Enterprise Meetup Monthly at LitheSpeed office in Herndon, VA •  Lean Startup Machine Travels nationwide •  Lean Startup Conference Annually in San Francisco •  Lean + Agile Practitioner’s Forum Coming soon!
  • 32. Reading  List  –  Lean    Agile  Innova'on   •  Running Lean – Maurya •  Essential Scrum – Rubin •  The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development – Vlaskovits •  The Lean Startup – Ries •  Discover to Deliver – Gottesdiener •  The Other Side of Innovation – Govindarajan •  Four Steps to the Ephiphany – Blank •  Business Model Generation – Osterwalder
  • 33. Contact Us for Further Information 33 Raj Indugula LitheSpeed raj.indugula@lithespeed.com On the Web: http://www.lithespeed.com I only wish I had read this book when I started my career in software product management, or even better yet, when I was given my first project to manage. In addition to providing an excellent handbook for managing with agile software development methodologies, Managing Agile Projects offers a guide to more effective project management in many business settings. John P. Barnes, former Vice President of Product Management at Emergis, Inc.