This document discusses applying Lean Startup and Scrum practices to product development within large organizations. It notes challenges large organizations face with one-size-fits-all approaches and delayed learning from failures. The document then describes a project using Lean Startup to validate problems and solutions iteratively with customers before transitioning to Scrum for scaled development. Key practices from Lean Startup like lean canvassing, customer interviews and prototyping helped identify 15 important features, and the project is now in realization with high confidence in success.

1. Prepared by :
Anish Cheriyan, Director, Huawei
Best of Scrum and Lean Startup
for product development
Prepared By Anish Cheriyan,
Director, Huawei Technologies

2. Topics
• Typical Challenges of Large Organization
• Development method based on degree of uncertainty
• Background of the Business Problem
• Lean Startup and Scrum practices applied

3. Typical Challenges of Big Organization
• One size fits all solution for the management
method
• Failure is a failure
• Delayed Validated Learning

4. One size fits all solution for the management
method
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Large Organization have ready made past proven life cycle following waterfall, scrum,
scrumban or related life cycle. Teams somehow forcefiet the project into such framework.

5. What happens if you fail
Failure is not considered good in most situations or may be in all situations.
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6. Delayed Validated Learning
In most cases the validated learning comes after we do the big bang development.
Concept Plan
Design
and
Develop
Testing Release
Beta
Test
Final
Release
Most
learning
happen here
2 week to 3 months duration

7. Method based on degree of uncertainty
Based on degree of uncertainty development method can be used.

8. Background of the Business Problem
• Embedded Development.
• Customer was not clear about the
problem.
• Not clear about what feature is
required.

9. “A Startup is a
human
institution
designed to
deliver a product
or service
under conditions
of extreme
uncertainty”
Eric Ries

11. Our Approach
Concept Plan …
Problem
Validation
Solution
Validation
Scale
We used the Lean Startup framework to validate the problem and the solution and for
scaling we used the product development life cyde

12. Scrum and Lean Startup Applied
Idea/Unkno
wn
problem
Product
Ready
Scale (Product
Development)
Integrated Product Development Process

13. Key Practices used
. Lean Canvas
. Interview, . Survey
. Presentation
. Go out of the
building
. Wireframing
. Wireframing
. Working Prototype
. Iterative
Development
. Customer Demo
. One Metric that
matters
Concept Plan Develop Release
. Scrum Life Cycle
. Continuous Delivery
. All related practices
Lean Canvas, Wireframing and iterative development practices were extensively used.

14. Key Results
• We have been able to finalize around 15 key features
of the product using Lean Startup and Scrum
approach.
• Right now realization is in progress.
• We are 100% confident about the success of these
features as customer has seen the working feature.

15. Thank You
“Life is too short to build something which
nobody wants”