The Lean Product Playbook

How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback

Dan Olsen | 4.51 | 1,673 ratings and reviews

Recommended by Nir Eyal, Ken Norton, Dan Olsen, and 5 others. See all reviews

Ranked #8 in Lean Startup, Ranked #12 in Lean Management — see more rankings.

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 book 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 Minimally Viable Product (MVP)
- Design your MVP prototypeTest 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.

Executives, product managers, designers, developers, marketers, analysts and anyone who is passionate about building great products will find "The Lean Product Playbook" an indispensable, hands-on resource. less

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Julia Enthoven For people interested in designing or building software products: The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman and The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen. Both books have informed my product sense and helped me make decisions about great UX. (Source)

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