The Innovator’s Gift: Uncover The Problems Users Have And Build Better Products
ASH MAURYA
Customer development and lean startup expert, creator of the Lean Canvas, best-selling author of "Running Lean" and "Scaling Lean"Your awesome new product, once launched, will spew out problems of it’s own. The key to staying relevant to your customers and defending/growing your business model does not come from throwing more features (solutions) at them, but rather continuously uncovering problems and addressing them — before your competitors do.
Join Ash Maurya, customer development and lean startup expert, creator of the Lean Canvas and best-selling author, to learn a systematic approach for uncovering problems worth solving and turning them into solutions your customers cannot refuse.
ABOUT
THIS WORKSHOP
WHY TAKE THIS WORKSHOP?
Cassette tapes where just fine until CDs came along and made “rewinding/forwarding to find your favorite song” a problem, and offered “instant access to tracks” instead.
CDs where just fine until the iPod (and the 99c music store) came along and made “buying an entire CD for just one song” a problem, and offered “a thousand songs in your pocket” instead.
MP3 players were just fine until streaming services came along and made “a thousand songs in your pocket” a problem, and offered you 40 million songs the cloud instead.
There is no such thing as a perfect solution. Problems and solutions are two sides of the same coin. And new problems worth solving come from old solutions.
Even your awesome new solution, once launched, will spew out problems of it’s own. The key to staying relevant to your customers and defending/growing your business model does not come from throwing more features (solutions) at them, but rather continuously uncovering problems and addressing them — before your competitors do.
Join Ash Maurya, customer development and lean startup expert, creator of the Lean Canvas and best-selling author, to understand how to identify your customer’s problems, validate and prioritise them, and formalise the process in a product validation plan.
All How to Web workshops consist of live sessions with the instructor delivered online, with no recorded materials, so you can discuss your problems and get your questions answered.
WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES
Before the workshop
Before the workshop, Ash will be provide with recommended reading about the “Can we build it?” vs “Should we build it?” mindset.
1st session, July 23, starting at 1pm GMT, 3h
During the 1st live session, Ash will present and discuss the steps and frameworks you need to master in order to progress from need to feature validation and prioritisation in order to build better products.
Ongoing Q&A
Homework, July 23 – August 3
You’ll be asked to put together a validation plan pitch which will be discussed with the instructor during the next session.
2nd session, August 3, starting at 1pm GMT, 1h
During the 2nd live session, Ash will discuss with you the specific challenges you’ve encountered while working on your validation plan plitch.
Ongoing Q&A
MAIN TAKEAWAYS
Uncovering the right Jobs-to-be-Done
Jobs-to-be-Done interviewing helps you get a deep understanding of the user problems before staring a build-measure-learn process.
Understanding the 4 Forces of Progress
The causal forces of Push, Pull, Inertia, and Friction drive customer behavior. Understanding them is key to uncovering the right problems worth solving and build solutions that attract and retain customers.
Prioritise the problems
Use a Lean Canvas and the Customer Forces canvas to prioritise the problems you have identified before starting implementation.
Formulate a validation plan
Capture the problem/solution proposals in a Validation Plan, an effective template for sourcing and sharing ideas.
Who is
ASH MAURYA
Ash Maurya is a renowned customer development and lean development expert, author of the best-sellers “Running Lean” and “Scalling Lean”, and creator of the Lean Canvas.
Published in 2010, “Running Lean” is one of the foundational books on using lean processes in software development.
Ash is praised for offering some of the best and most practical advice for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs all over the world. Driven by the search for better and faster ways for building successful products, Ash has developed a systematic methodology for raising the odds of success built upon Lean Startup, Customer Development, and Bootstrapping techniques.
WHAT IS
Customer Development / Lean Startup
Customer development is a process to discover and validate the needs that customers have, build the right product to satisfy that customer’s needs, tested the correct methods for acquiring and converting customers, and deployed the right resources in the organization to meet the demand for the product.
The framework provides a way to use a scientific approach to validate assumptions about your product and business.
Lean startup is a methodology for developing businesses and products that aims to shorten product development cycles and rapidly discover if a proposed business model is viable. This is achieved by adopting a combination of business-hypothesis-driven experimentation, iterative product releases, and validated learning.
