Slides Steven Cohn recently used in his discussion w/ mentees of The Product Mentor. The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People. Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community. http://TheProductMentor.com

1. How We Used Lean
to Start:

2. Pre Process:
(1st Week of December 2012)

3. Team Ideation:
(2nd Week of December 2012)

4. Customer Interviews:
(Late-December to Early-January 2013)

5. 1st MVP:
(Mid-January 2013)

6. 2nd MVP:
(February 2013)

7. We Can Build That:
(March 2013)

8. Iterate & Validate:
(April 2013)

9. Learn Funnel Metrics
(May - June 2013)

10. Sharpen Value Prop & Roadmap
(June - July 2013)

11. First Paying Customers
(July 2013)

12. Manage Customers Closely
(Q3 2013)

13. Build 2.0
(Q3 2013)

14. Re-launch
(October 2013)
http://vimeo.com/75448664

15. On-Board Customers
(Q4 2013)

16. Fix Blockers
(Q1 2014)

17. Re-launch
(March 2014)

18. Best Practices..I Think
1. Require a commitment from customer
2. Confirm pricing
3. Continuous deployment
4. Don’t worry about visual design at first..but do
focus on UX
5. Listen for patterns...then build
6. Delete code