Steering Product Success through Lean Startup

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I love to read. Everyday I'm reading blogs, monthly I'm reading certain magazines, and interspersed throughout the year I'm reading books. I love learning new things and finding connections between ideas, and I'm often imagining how I might apply what I'm learning. 

I also know that reading a book alone might not be enough to know how to use the ideas or get started. When I'm doing my job well as a consultant, I act as the Cliff’s Notes version or quick reference guide for ideas so my clients don't have to read ALL THE THINGS and help them act on them. 

My friend Ty and I created a class to help folks enhance their product management techniques based on Lean Startup and the Strategyzer series. We led it for a group of R&D/incubation product leaders, and it was such a great experience that we created a one-hour version to share at meetups.

We presented this topic recently at the Tampa Bay Agile Product Owners group, and you can watch the recording below:

Regardless of your organization’s size, creating a new product or enhancing an existing product is risky. Product Owners and teams work under conditions of extreme uncertainty to deliver value to customers. Using the Lean Startup approach, you can create order (not chaos) by using tools to validate your product vision continuously.