Over view of two storyboard tools for Product Managers

1. Lean Tools for Company &
Product Planning
Product Managers Meetup
March 19, 2015
AcceleratorYYC
Lynn Sutherland
lynn.sutherland@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

2. Lean Tools for Company & Product Planning
• NRC-IRAP
• Overview Two Tools
• Business Model Canvas
• Lynn’s Placemat (Success Story Board)
• Exercise
• Links
• Business Model Canvas
http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/canvas/bmc
• Stormboard https://www.stormboard.com/ (Edmonton-based online
shared stickie note boards has BMC)
• Leankor http://www.leankor.com/ (Calgary-based team workflow via
shared stickie notes)
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3. Business Model Canvas
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4. Business Model Canvas
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5. Lynn’s Placemat
• 2013 presentation on 3,000 ideas to
make one commercial success
• Started using spider diagram to
summarize projects
• Started using map of 5 key
development streams over time with
milestones and dependencies
• 2015 Product Manager’s MeetUp
• Success Story Board
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Team
Market
FinanceTechnology
Governance
Project Scorecard

6. Current Placemat “Success Storyboard”
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8. Exercise
• Think of a company, product, project
• Map it on Success Storyboard
• Map it on Business Model Canvas
• Discussion
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9. Thank you
Lynn Sutherland
lynn.sutherland@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca