Some years ago, Eric Ries, Steve Blank and others initiated The Lean Startup movement. The Lean Startup is a movement, an inspiration, a set of principles and practices that any entrepreneur initiating a startup would be well advised to follow.
Projecting myself into it, I think that if I had read Ries' book before, or even better Blank's book, I would maybe own my own company today, around AirXCell or another product, instead of being disgusted and honestly not considering it for the near future.
In addition to giving a pretty important set of principles when it comes to creating and running a startup, The Lean Startup also implies an extended set of Engineering practices, especially software engineering practices.
Lean Startup - by Hristo Neychev (bring your ideas to life faster, smarter, a...Hristo Neychev
Lean Startup ideas, trends, and best practices through the lens of my experience in four industries, three startups, and two continents.
Lean Startup methodologies are applicable to both small and large organisation focused on creating new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
My invited talk at TCS AgileCafe, Bangalore on Sep 29. In this talk, I explore how large #enterprises are creating #innovative products using #leanstartups
Eric Ries, Author/Speaker/Consultant, The Lean Startup500 Startups
Presentation by Eric Ries (Author/Speaker/Consultant, The Lean Startup) at the 'Lean Startup, Lean Investor' event on November 3, 2010 (Produced by 500 Startups & Nokia/Nokia Growth Partners)
Introduction to Lean Startup leading up to a 3-hour workshop. Presented by me at EFYI (European Forum for Young Innovators) 2016, conference organized by Poland Innovative (Polska Innowacyjna).
Some years ago, Eric Ries, Steve Blank and others initiated The Lean Startup movement. The Lean Startup is a movement, an inspiration, a set of principles and practices that any entrepreneur initiating a startup would be well advised to follow.
Projecting myself into it, I think that if I had read Ries' book before, or even better Blank's book, I would maybe own my own company today, around AirXCell or another product, instead of being disgusted and honestly not considering it for the near future.
In addition to giving a pretty important set of principles when it comes to creating and running a startup, The Lean Startup also implies an extended set of Engineering practices, especially software engineering practices.
Lean Startup - by Hristo Neychev (bring your ideas to life faster, smarter, a...Hristo Neychev
Lean Startup ideas, trends, and best practices through the lens of my experience in four industries, three startups, and two continents.
Lean Startup methodologies are applicable to both small and large organisation focused on creating new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
My invited talk at TCS AgileCafe, Bangalore on Sep 29. In this talk, I explore how large #enterprises are creating #innovative products using #leanstartups
Eric Ries, Author/Speaker/Consultant, The Lean Startup500 Startups
Presentation by Eric Ries (Author/Speaker/Consultant, The Lean Startup) at the 'Lean Startup, Lean Investor' event on November 3, 2010 (Produced by 500 Startups & Nokia/Nokia Growth Partners)
Introduction to Lean Startup leading up to a 3-hour workshop. Presented by me at EFYI (European Forum for Young Innovators) 2016, conference organized by Poland Innovative (Polska Innowacyjna).
The agile manifesto says directly that "We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it." If this continual improvement is true, what new topics are currently being discussed and talked about at agile conferences? What are teams across the world struggling and experimenting with? What topics are the most heated? In this session, I'll give an overview of some of the new and hot agile topics.
This is the presentation which is presented on Youtube. For a detailed summary of the Lean Startup, you can read the blog here http://www.betterthanbefore.in/the-lean-startup-eric-ries-summary/
Lean UX + UX Strat, from UX Strat conference, September 2013Joshua Seiden
Slides from my talk at UX Strat, 2013. (www.uxstrat.com)
How to use Lean UX methods to execute on business, product, and design strategy.
I presented a slightly altered version a few days later at Fluxible 2013. (http://www.fluxible.ca)
Every venture capitalist, board member and startup advisor counsels the entrepreneur to focus on building their minimum viable product (MVP). But how exactly does a company build out its MVP? Learn how the right framework guides your development from MVP to a mature product.
Startup Glossary - Begriffe und Methoden aus der Startupwelt. Präsentation im Rahmen der Exec I/O 2013 in Düsseldorf.
Die Präsentation gibt eine kurze Einführung rund um die wichtigsten Innovationsmethoden von Startups. Was ist das Erfolgsgeheimnis von Dropbox, Airbnb & Co? Erfahren Sie was ein Startup von einem bestehen Unternehmen unterscheidet und mit Hilfe welcher Vorgehensmodelle innovative Produkte und Dienstleistungen systematisch entwickelt und getestet werden können. Themen sind dabei unter anderem: Lean Startup, Customer Development, Design Thinking und der Business Model Canvas.
The whys, hows and whats of lean startup. 2 years of learning condensed into a 2-hour class.
Watch the recording of this talk at https://youtu.be/Un9O4mpR5k0
Presentation for Agile Australia Conference 2013. Introducing Lean Startup concepts in a way accessible to people used to usual project management methods. With lean startup you don't assume you know the end state required, (as you do with a project), you assume you need to focus on learning to discover the end state to solve the problem you area you looking at.
A close look at the methodologies, stages and best practices involved in developing products for our times)
What you will get out of this book:
Why Lean IT + Lean Development methodologies are two must-have approaches in your start-up toolkit
Making the right cloud provider and development partner choice for your startup
A thorough overview of how you can build an app on the Google App Engine and how and when integrations will take place
A guide to what a prospective client must look for in a development partner
Practical Tips for Building PM Skills by Reddit Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- The best way to start developing your product sense is to think intentionally about your everyday product usage.
- The only way to develop execution skills is by building, shipping, and iterating. And you don't have to know how to write code to build something!
- Always try to tie the impact of a proposed feature or idea back to a top-line metric that the company cares about, whether it's active users, revenue, or something else that impacts the business.
The agile manifesto says directly that "We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it." If this continual improvement is true, what new topics are currently being discussed and talked about at agile conferences? What are teams across the world struggling and experimenting with? What topics are the most heated? In this session, I'll give an overview of some of the new and hot agile topics.
This is the presentation which is presented on Youtube. For a detailed summary of the Lean Startup, you can read the blog here http://www.betterthanbefore.in/the-lean-startup-eric-ries-summary/
Lean UX + UX Strat, from UX Strat conference, September 2013Joshua Seiden
Slides from my talk at UX Strat, 2013. (www.uxstrat.com)
How to use Lean UX methods to execute on business, product, and design strategy.
I presented a slightly altered version a few days later at Fluxible 2013. (http://www.fluxible.ca)
Every venture capitalist, board member and startup advisor counsels the entrepreneur to focus on building their minimum viable product (MVP). But how exactly does a company build out its MVP? Learn how the right framework guides your development from MVP to a mature product.
Startup Glossary - Begriffe und Methoden aus der Startupwelt. Präsentation im Rahmen der Exec I/O 2013 in Düsseldorf.
Die Präsentation gibt eine kurze Einführung rund um die wichtigsten Innovationsmethoden von Startups. Was ist das Erfolgsgeheimnis von Dropbox, Airbnb & Co? Erfahren Sie was ein Startup von einem bestehen Unternehmen unterscheidet und mit Hilfe welcher Vorgehensmodelle innovative Produkte und Dienstleistungen systematisch entwickelt und getestet werden können. Themen sind dabei unter anderem: Lean Startup, Customer Development, Design Thinking und der Business Model Canvas.
The whys, hows and whats of lean startup. 2 years of learning condensed into a 2-hour class.
Watch the recording of this talk at https://youtu.be/Un9O4mpR5k0
Presentation for Agile Australia Conference 2013. Introducing Lean Startup concepts in a way accessible to people used to usual project management methods. With lean startup you don't assume you know the end state required, (as you do with a project), you assume you need to focus on learning to discover the end state to solve the problem you area you looking at.
A close look at the methodologies, stages and best practices involved in developing products for our times)
What you will get out of this book:
Why Lean IT + Lean Development methodologies are two must-have approaches in your start-up toolkit
Making the right cloud provider and development partner choice for your startup
A thorough overview of how you can build an app on the Google App Engine and how and when integrations will take place
A guide to what a prospective client must look for in a development partner
Practical Tips for Building PM Skills by Reddit Sr PMProduct School
Main Takeaways:
- The best way to start developing your product sense is to think intentionally about your everyday product usage.
- The only way to develop execution skills is by building, shipping, and iterating. And you don't have to know how to write code to build something!
- Always try to tie the impact of a proposed feature or idea back to a top-line metric that the company cares about, whether it's active users, revenue, or something else that impacts the business.
Uniting product development, business strategy, and agile software practices.
Covers thinking about product development wholistically from a customer-first perspective. Suggests good principles for established companies and boostrappers.
You've got security issues to solve. Should you build a solution or buy something pre-built? If you choose to buy, what should your selection criteria be? What questions should you ask the vendor? How should you run a POC? How do you put a security product through it's paces?
You can view a recording of this presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPFam1FtPRY
5 Lessons Learned in Product Management by Twitch Senior PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- How to take a non traditional path to product management
- How to leverage your unique background to differentiate yourself as a Product Manager
- Steps you can take to build your product management skills/portfolio while in other fields
Intro to Lean Startup and Customer Discovery for AgilistsShashi Jain
This is a short presentation I made to the Portland Agile and Scrum group giving a light introduction to Lean Startup, Customer Discovery, and how you use them together to create a product-market fit.
How to Get to Know Your Users by Google's former Product ManagerProduct School
The single most important thing you can do as a Product Manager is to get a solid understanding of your users. Where are they? How many? What are their personas? Why do they currently use your product?
The user/customer is the basis of any business. So, how does one get a deeper understanding of who the user/customer is?
Vikram Chatterji, former Product Manager at Google, talked about how these methods vary based on company size, type (B2B, B2C), and proximity to end users.
Paketo Buildpacks : la meilleure façon de construire des images OCI? DevopsDa...Anthony Dahanne
Les Buildpacks existent depuis plus de 10 ans ! D’abord, ils étaient utilisés pour détecter et construire une application avant de la déployer sur certains PaaS. Ensuite, nous avons pu créer des images Docker (OCI) avec leur dernière génération, les Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNCF en incubation). Sont-ils une bonne alternative au Dockerfile ? Que sont les buildpacks Paketo ? Quelles communautés les soutiennent et comment ?
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BoxLang is more than just a language; it's a community. By choosing a Visionary License, you're not just investing in your success, you're actively contributing to the ongoing development and support of BoxLang.
Enhancing Project Management Efficiency_ Leveraging AI Tools like ChatGPT.pdfJay Das
With the advent of artificial intelligence or AI tools, project management processes are undergoing a transformative shift. By using tools like ChatGPT, and Bard organizations can empower their leaders and managers to plan, execute, and monitor projects more effectively.
Listen to the keynote address and hear about the latest developments from Rachana Ananthakrishnan and Ian Foster who review the updates to the Globus Platform and Service, and the relevance of Globus to the scientific community as an automation platform to accelerate scientific discovery.
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As part of the DOE Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) program, NERSC at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and ALCF at Argonne National Lab are working closely with General Atomics on accelerating the computing requirements of the DIII-D experiment. As part of the work the team is investigating ways to speedup the time to solution for many different parts of the DIII-D workflow including how they run jobs on HPC systems. One of these routes is looking at Globus Compute as a way to replace the current method for managing tasks and we describe a brief proof of concept showing how Globus Compute could help to schedule jobs and be a tool to connect compute at different facilities.
Code reviews are vital for ensuring good code quality. They serve as one of our last lines of defense against bugs and subpar code reaching production.
Yet, they often turn into annoying tasks riddled with frustration, hostility, unclear feedback and lack of standards. How can we improve this crucial process?
In this session we will cover:
- The Art of Effective Code Reviews
- Streamlining the Review Process
- Elevating Reviews with Automated Tools
By the end of this presentation, you'll have the knowledge on how to organize and improve your code review proces
Accelerate Enterprise Software Engineering with PlatformlessWSO2
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Challenges of building platforms and the benefits of platformless.
Key principles of platformless, including API-first, cloud-native middleware, platform engineering, and developer experience.
How Choreo enables the platformless experience.
How key concepts like application architecture, domain-driven design, zero trust, and cell-based architecture are inherently a part of Choreo.
Demo of an end-to-end app built and deployed on Choreo.
First Steps with Globus Compute Multi-User EndpointsGlobus
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CyanicLab, an offshore custom software development company based in Sweden,India, Finland, is your go-to partner for startup development and innovative web design solutions. Our expert team specializes in crafting cutting-edge software tailored to meet the unique needs of startups and established enterprises alike. From conceptualization to execution, we offer comprehensive services including web and mobile app development, UI/UX design, and ongoing software maintenance. Ready to elevate your business? Contact CyanicLab today and let us propel your vision to success with our top-notch IT solutions.
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Large Language Models (LLMs) are currently the center of attention in the tech world, particularly for their potential to advance research. In this presentation, we'll explore a straightforward and effective method for quickly initiating inference runs on supercomputers using the vLLM tool with Globus Compute, specifically on the Polaris system at ALCF. We'll begin by briefly discussing the popularity and applications of LLMs in various fields. Following this, we will introduce the vLLM tool, and explain how it integrates with Globus Compute to efficiently manage LLM operations on Polaris. Attendees will learn the practical aspects of setting up and remotely triggering LLMs from local machines, focusing on ease of use and efficiency. This talk is ideal for researchers and practitioners looking to leverage the power of LLMs in their work, offering a clear guide to harnessing supercomputing resources for quick and effective LLM inference.
Enhancing Research Orchestration Capabilities at ORNL.pdfGlobus
Cross-facility research orchestration comes with ever-changing constraints regarding the availability and suitability of various compute and data resources. In short, a flexible data and processing fabric is needed to enable the dynamic redirection of data and compute tasks throughout the lifecycle of an experiment. In this talk, we illustrate how we easily leveraged Globus services to instrument the ACE research testbed at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility with flexible data and task orchestration capabilities.
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Games are powerful teaching tools, fostering hands-on engagement and fun. But they require careful consideration to succeed. Join me to explore factors in running and selecting games, ensuring they serve as effective teaching tools. Learn to maintain focus on learning objectives while playing, and how to measure the ROI of gaming in education. Discover strategies for pitching gaming to leadership. This session offers insights, tips, and examples for coaches, team leads, and enterprise leaders seeking to teach from simple to complex concepts.
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Large Language Models and the End of ProgrammingMatt Welsh
Talk by Matt Welsh at Craft Conference 2024 on the impact that Large Language Models will have on the future of software development. In this talk, I discuss the ways in which LLMs will impact the software industry, from replacing human software developers with AI, to replacing conventional software with models that perform reasoning, computation, and problem-solving.
Developing Distributed High-performance Computing Capabilities of an Open Sci...Globus
COVID-19 had an unprecedented impact on scientific collaboration. The pandemic and its broad response from the scientific community has forged new relationships among public health practitioners, mathematical modelers, and scientific computing specialists, while revealing critical gaps in exploiting advanced computing systems to support urgent decision making. Informed by our team’s work in applying high-performance computing in support of public health decision makers during the COVID-19 pandemic, we present how Globus technologies are enabling the development of an open science platform for robust epidemic analysis, with the goal of collaborative, secure, distributed, on-demand, and fast time-to-solution analyses to support public health.
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Recreation management software streamlines operations by automating key tasks such as scheduling, registration, and payment processing, reducing manual workload and errors. It provides centralized management of facilities, classes, and events, ensuring efficient resource allocation and facility usage. The software offers user-friendly online portals for easy access to bookings and program information, enhancing customer experience. Real-time reporting and data analytics deliver insights into attendance and preferences, aiding in strategic decision-making. Additionally, effective communication tools keep participants and staff informed with timely updates. Overall, recreation management software enhances efficiency, improves service delivery, and boosts customer satisfaction.
OpenFOAM solver for Helmholtz equation, helmholtzFoam / helmholtzBubbleFoamtakuyayamamoto1800
In this slide, we show the simulation example and the way to compile this solver.
In this solver, the Helmholtz equation can be solved by helmholtzFoam. Also, the Helmholtz equation with uniformly dispersed bubbles can be simulated by helmholtzBubbleFoam.
6. “People think focus means saying yes to the
thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not
what it means at all. It means saying no to the
hundred other good ideas.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple
7. How being a new
product manager
is like becoming
a mom
9. - The 360 Degree Leader
- Developing the Leader within You
- The 21 Irreputable Laws of
Leadership
- How Successful People Think
- The Maxwell Leadership Bible
Books to Read
10. Quick YouTube Watch
At the seventh annual BlogHer Conference,
PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi shared
with attendees her
5 C's of leadership.
https://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=u0DMaydBOxk
13. o Be open to a variety of topics (Think like a CEO)
o Look for a deeper meaning
o Think about how everything could be improved
o Think about the product from the perspective of the
business
o Ask ‘why?’ All. The. Time
o Apply the mirroring and labelling
Key Points
18. ClassExercise
Exercise 4
You are the PM for a streaming video
service. You come into the office and
see that one key metric has dropped
by 80%. What will you do?
19. ClassExercise
A user signs up for the service -> enters in a credit card for payment (optional) -> clicks on
a video to watch -> Watches the video -> chooses another video to watch.
This is important in narrowing down exactly when the problem first starts. For example, if a
key KPI is number of videos watched, perhaps the sign in is where most people are failing.
Was it gradual or sudden?
What Factors Contributed to the Drop? (Your Data Analytics Mindset is in play here)
Internal Factors:
New feature release
Server went down
A New bug
Narrow down by region, browser/device type and OS type.
Are we gathering the correct metrics (First)?
Is it the only KPI that dropped running through the user Journey (Did any KPI before it
dropped)?
20. ClassExercise
New feature? What was the goal of the feature, was it met? Would there be a need to trade of the
old metrics for this new metrics (If it was positioned as a replacement, a new way of doing things)
External Factors
A New Competitor Joins the market
Bad PR
Firmware was pushed outside your control
Seasons or Major events (outliers) – A Pandemic in Wuhan
Now you have identified the issue, what the next step:
Issues/Bug – Work with SysOps, Engineering and other members of the project team to resolve.
Issue a hotfix.
In summary, understand the issue thoroughly before acting and letting people know of the findings.
BIG QUESTION: Should I inform the larger team first before analyzing the problem so as to avoid a
panic. (Judgement Calls)
External issue? Quite harder to solve. Might require you to go through the normal product
development life cycle to address it.
22. Useful Links
Jesus is the Greatest Product Manager – An Atheist View
We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.
– Virginia Satir
Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/
LinkedIn Engineering Blog:
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog
Install Slido and scan the QR Code for Q/A session or use the link.
Picking Bad Apples or Good Apples out of a Basket of Apples
A Product Manager simply thinks like a Leader. To be an effective Product Manager, you must be an effective Leader.
Why?
Because, you’ll make a lot of judgement calls.
All you’ve got to be a good Leader is to make friends with a guy I’ve come to love. – John C. Maxwell
Read Books like:
The 360 Degree Leader
Developing the Leader within You
The 21 Irreputable Laws of Leadership
How Successful People Think
The Maxwell Leadership Bible
5 Cs of Leadership with Indraa Nooyi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0DMaydBOxk
I also saw that different jobs – lawyer, accountant, customer service, sales – naturally drive the people who work in them to develop very different skills and behavior
From the Sales profession, I learned to understand and relate to people on the level of emotions and feelings, rather than only relating on the level of words and ideas.
I hope this window into a very different job from your own will provide you with valuable tips which you can put to use in your own career, however different it may be from mine.
Be Open to Variety of Topics
The activities to be aligned run the gamut from sales, marketing and market launch, through research and development, to consulting, training and customer support, with finance and strategy thrown in there as well.
Product Manager is the CEO of the product
The Product Manager learns to push his or her circle of concern out as widely as possible within the organization, and take charge of his or her piece of every activity, in order to make everything come together for the product’s market success.
Note: Have a open mind about new concepts, ideas, people, places, industry and things. Wonder/Consider about thing
A Product Manager combines a lot of things in other to make meaningful products.
Feedbacks:
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Look for a deeper Meaning
Don’t settle for thing at its surface value. Don’t Just take surface insights
Think deeper
Go to Gemba – Shop Floor (Lean Startup Knowledge)
AgroCenta (Michael Ocansey and Francis) as a case study: From Swappaholics to AgroCenta
Don’t stop on the first level of insight.
Ask the right question to get the right answers. (My struggles during Scrum Meetings & Google Search)
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Think about how everything could be improved. (October 1st Product)
Corruption
Power
Governance
Pandemic
Education
Ethnicity
Tried out a new product? think about how to make it better.
Zoom giving you trouble?
Think about what is going on that is preventing the product team from implementing a feature (A Need for scrum session).
Sometime, I might mean certain product team are more inept than others, but more often than not, a lot of product are done by smart people like yourself.
Dig deeper to know why? It might help you uncover interesting situation.
Don’t jump to conclusions
Morning Commute
Food Pickup/order
Laundry
How you deal with kids
How you go to college
The apps on your phone
The financial app
Transportation system
Scenario 1:
My Health App Product Journey. From Version 1.0 to Version 2.0.
Recruitment of Engineering Team (Lucky to influence the choice of your team)
No SME (An No Health Background as Product Manager)
The Expectation Versus the Reality (No Ideals)
Scenario 2:
The Simple FibreOne Onboarding Hack (Estate Matters)
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Think about the product from the perspective of the business
Most Importantly: Think about all these from the perspective of gaining quick wins – i.e. business side of things.
How to make the first five best improvement that can give the business the biggest impact, giving the most value to the users (Ensure you strike a balance)
I’m sure sometimes you’ve wondered how a company makes money while giving your completely free services and while some.
WHATSAPP
GOOGLE
FACEBOOK
On the other end, you’ve wondered how the below companies keep customer while providing horrible services
PHCH (Monopoly – Cost of switching is high)
GOOD MAMA
GLO & MTN
HERITAGE BANK/ZENITH
There’s a classic tension that exists when businesses create a distinction between their business objectives and those of their customers (As a product manager, you have to find the balance)
So, a product designer who IS customer-centric has to find a way to turn business-centric objectives into customer-centric features.
Scenario
The Imbalance:
Question to Audience: Identify products with imbalance in the business objective and customer objectives?
Quoted: Performance marketing company, Criteo, published a report in 2015, based on a study of 2,200 UK consumers, which found that “A third of British consumers are frustrated by large volumes of online ads”
Solution:
For instance, a customer may be looking to purchase a product from an online retailer. Rather than showing them a static advertising banner for a specific product, an online advertiser may opt to create and sponsor a useful buying guide that helps consumers make a decision.
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Ask why all the time about every thing
Why is this product building the way that it is?
Be Inquisitive.
Go deeper level of Why
Beyond why
Reflect active listening and try to grasp the perspective.
Can you tell me more about…?
What did you mean by…?
Presume positive intent
What are you planning to…?
How are you going to…?
Evoke discovery, insight, commitment, or action on behalf of the receiver of the question.
What would you do if…?
What were you thinking when…?
How can you apply…?
Challenge current assumptions
How else might you…?
What is stopping you from…?
What would happen if…?
Apply the Mirroring and Labelling
Labelling
It sounds like? It seems like you’re upset about this? It feels like?
Sounds like
Never use: What I’m hearing
Mirroring:
Repeat the last three words of what the audience says
Reference: Chris Voss – Masterclass – The Art of Negotiation
Read the Book: Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
To Play the video to the class to watch
Requires participants to identify a product on which they plan to work on or they are currently working on.
The more unbiased you are, the more objective your opinion is
1. What is the key point of your product? 2. What is your advantage against competitors? 3. What are competitive disadvantages of your product?
You can start with analyzing products and services you encounter on a regular day. For instance, try to answer these three questions about the shop you drop in after work, or your favorite hair salon.
Make it your everyday habit to think about possible improvements, automation, and thus the implementation of at least one item or a process within your work environment.
You’re Lazy, Check out this guy:
https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2015/11/25/this-man-is-a-genius/#.tnw_kz45rdb6
Watch your backlog!
Our lives are big-scale projects with a huge degree of uncertainty and many “features” to implement. Thus, you can use the same approaches we use in software development. Here is what I can recommend:
1. Set your life goals and use time-boxed iterations to achieve them. 2. Prioritize. 3. Test your hypotheses and stick to what works. 4. Run retrospectives for self-observations. 5. Find vacant niches. 6. Think about how to scale your success. 7. Love people around you; they are your users
Assumptions & Questions To clarify, we want to design a:
Mobile app for best tourist places in a specific country (say Spain).
By bicycle we mean normal bicycle & e-bikes with less than 500 watt power which do not require DRIVING LICENSES.
Next step is to discuss the different user groups:
Tourists (Solo traveller/group of friends/family) - This is the main user group and their objectives are to explore the popular places in the city (museums, zoo, monuments, sightseeing) and
Guides/Travel Agency - They may want to include rented bikes to their customers and offer them this optional service.
Needs of the Tourists:
1) Native language of the tourists
2) Locate a bike
3) Get an idea of the cost
4) Start my ride & ride safely
5) Deposit the bike after completing the journey
6) Make payment for the trip
7) Get suggestions of popular places & restaurants during my journey
Solutions for the aforementioned needs: 1) Localization - Have a multi-lingual app which prompts user to select language after installation (English, Spanish, German, French etc.). Have an option to switch language in settings option 2) Locate bikes nearby - Each bike will have a GPS system installed and bikes will be displayed to the user in a map view (he can view which bikes are near him) and go to the respective location to pickup the bike.
3) Cost - User can select bike types and it will display the cost (per hour, per day basis).
When a se
4) Start my ride- To start the ride there are the following prerequisites
Setup payment - Setup a payment wallet (Paypal etc.), Credit card, Debit Card
Unlock the bicycle - Scan QR code to unlock the bike which will start the trip automatically and time will recorded and displayed to the rider
Safety - Each bike will have a attached helmet to it
5) Deposit the bike - Parking spots will be displayed to the users on app to ensure bikes are parked in high density areas of the city. (users will be provided suggestions of parking spots so that the other riders can find them easily for subsequent trips). Once a user ends his trip, an invoice/receipt will be displayed and the amount will be deducted from the wallet.
Solution Evaluation: Solution No.Freq of UsageImpact on UserImpact on BusinessDev. time1) LocalizationMediumMedium MediumLow2) Locate bikes nearbyHighHighHighLow3) Bike type & Associated CostHighMediumHighLow4) Bike Unlocking & Trip PaymentHighHighHighHigh5) Deposit Bike (Parking spots)MediumLowMediumHighBased on the above priorities, we can decide that 1 & 2 are quick wins, 3&4 are must haves and 5 is nice to have. To summarize, we want to build a bicycle renting mobile app for tourist with a goal of helping them travel the city using an efficient & clean energy solution that meets their needs. Points #1,2,3 and 4 constitute our MVP
