Jon Harmer
LEAN
Product Management
Product Management
Delivering measurable business results
through innovative product solutions that meet
both market needs and company goals
PROBLEM?
What is your
Your solution may not resonate with
customers
Requirements can change quickly in
your market
Many assumptions have to be made
early on for BUFD
Current BUFD (Big Up Front Design)
process slows innovation
CHANGE
We need to
how we do things
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT MISSION:
Own and manage the full suite of products
Roadmap
Pricing
Positioning,
Messaging
BASED ON INDUSTRY BEST PRACTICES
YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE SMALL TO DO THIS
Velocity	Vision	 Valida.on	
Lean Product Management
1 2 3
VISION VALIDATION VELOCITY
1
Part 1
VISION
IS THERE A PROBLEM WORTH SOLVING
Can you build (or offer) a
solution for that problem?Would they buy it from you?
If there was a solution, would
enough of them buy it?
Do your customers recognize
that they have the problem you
want to solve?
QUESTION
The answer to your
is not inside the building*
*well – kinda
PHILOSOPHY
Listen to your customers (both
internal and external) and
profitably offer innovative
products that solve their problems
at prices they are willing to pay
Minimum Viable
Products built by deep
pocketed companies
Crappy products no one
wants to use Quick, useful products.
Good for us to build to test
our hypotheses
MVP was a video and
signup page describing
what the product would
become
MVP was website where
they sourced shoes from
the local shoe store
COMMUNICATE VISION
2
Part 2
VALIDATE
Product
Management
Product
Development
BUILDING THE RIGHT PRODUCTS
is better than perfect
DONE
is better than perfect
DONE
You can start learning
and iterating sooner
TEST YOUR ASSUMPTIONS
DATA DRIVEN DECISION MAKING
Value
Risk
Value
Time
Value
Risk
Value
Time
Traditional Product
Management
Lean Product
Management
Adapted from Waterfall vs Agile development
PRODUCT/MARKET FIT
PRODUCT/MARKET FIT
Noteverythingwillbeawinner–iterateandpivotyour
waytoProduct/MarketFit
3
Part 3
VELOCITY
SCALE PROCESS
GROW GEOGRAPHICALLY
END OF LIFE
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VISION VALIDATION VELOCITY
• Problem
• MVP
• Communicate
• Build
• Measure
• Learn
• Scale
• Grow
• EOL
What is different this time?
How are we going to enable the company to do this?
How can you implement these some of these changes
in your org?
JON HARMER
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonharmer
@JHARMER
Lean product management

Lean product management