Book Titles

The Lean Product Playbook
How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback

By Dan Olsen

Year Published: 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1-118-96087-5
Categories: Agility, Innovation, Lean, Needs, Products

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The Lean Product Playbook:

You can gather much richer data sitting next to a user versus sharing a screen.

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Getting feedback from customers that aren’t in your target market is a waste of time and money that can lead you in the wrong direction.

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[Usability testing] isn’t rocket science – like most things in life, it just takes practice to get better at it.

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It is very powerful when multiple people observe the same customer feedback at the same time.

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To help counter… natural tendencies, it’s important to explicitly tell users up front that you want their honest feedback, even if it’s negative.

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…it’s important that the user verbalize his or her thoughts so you can hear them. This is called the think aloud protocol.

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Discovery questions also help warm the user up to the context of your product before you show it to them.

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The point of user testing is not to make ourselves feel good; the point is to get objective feedback back from real customers.

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If users have difficulty understanding or using your product, it’s important not to help them, as painful as that may feel. Your goal is to keep the test as real as possible…

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There are three distinct elements of your product that users will give you feedback on: functionality, UX, and messaging.

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