lean startup - 8 techniques every dev team should know
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Introduction to Lean Startup methodology with overview of Vision -> Strategy -> MVP -> Build -> Measure -> Learn -> Cut Waste -> Pivot progression. Fun quizzes and tests explaining concepts like split testing and cohorts. Second part of the presentation goes over how to use Lean Startup in development. Adjusting dev cycle to focus more on learning and to move through the iterations faster. Continuous deployment and production metrics to help move code from the developer to the end user.TRANSCRIPT
8 techniques every product development team should know
LEAN STARTUP
INTRODUCTIONS
• Currently CEO of AgileEngine
• Co-founder and CTO of Validio (now GlobalLogic Kharkov)
• Co-founder and CTO of 2 startups
• Author of “Covert Java” book
• Developer, architect, entrepreneur, speaker
Alex Kalinovsky
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AWARENESS TEST
PAY ATTENTION!
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Story of 2 startups
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Startup 1 – Boo.com
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ShoeSite.com
Startup 2 - Free Shipping on Shoes
Which startup did better?
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Which one did better?
2 startups side-by-side
• 50,000 varieties of shoes
• $1 billion in sales
• 24 million customers
• Acquired by Amazon.com for $1.2 billion
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• $135M spent in 18 months
• $500,000 in sales
• 609 orders
• Liquidated for $250,000
Why do it?
• The question is not “can this product be built”. In the modern economy, the more pertinent questions are “Should this be built” and “Can we build a sustainable business around it”?
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Introducing Lean Startup
• Roots in Toyota
• Everyone can be entrepreneur
• Startups are best at turning ideas into products in the environment of extreme uncertainty
• Lean Startup approach can be used for enterprise architecture, recruiting, QA and sales
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Define Vision
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What do you want to achieve?
Establish Strategy
• How will you measure progress?
• Talk with customers to validate your assumptions
• Understand your customer and discover their needs
• Value learning over working software
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Lean Approach
• What I say is not what I do
• Only way to validate is to build and measure
• Learn to see waste from value
• Lean thinking defines value as providing benefit to the customer; anything else is waste
• Ship soon. Learn. Cut waste.
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Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop
• Core of lean startup
• Each iteration tests a hypothesis of value or growth
• Minimize time through the loop
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VISION – Experiment
• If you cannot fail, you cannot learn
• Start with hypothesis/prediction
• Test predictions empirically
• Science, not alchemy
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Ready to build!
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Dropbox challenge
• What to build to test if building Dropbox is a good idea?
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STEER – Leap – MVP
• MVP = Minimum Viable Product
• Not a prototype – have to measure results
• Plan is based on assumptions; goal of iteration is to validate one of more of them
• Entrepreneurs dramatically overestimate how many features are need in MVP
• When in doubt – simplify
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MVP examples
• Video MVP - Dropbox
• Concierge MVP – StreetCount
• Cheap MVPs allow you to test ideas quickly and iterate. Angry Birds
• Low quality is OK for startups because of extreme uncertainty – craigslist.com
• Don’t worry about patents, worry about execution
• Commit to iteration no matter what for an agreed period of time
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Measure
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Measure
• Actionable – must demonstrate clear cause and effect
• Accessible – easy to find and understand
• Auditable – can be reproduced and verified
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VISION – Experiment – Hypothesis
• Value hypothesis tests whether a product really delivers value once users are using it
• Measure purchases, returning visitors or contributions
• Growth hypothesis tests how new customers will discover product
• Measure referrals and invitations
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Measure - Cohort Testing
• Which way is this bus headed?
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STEER – Measure – Split Testing
• Split Testing to determine a better of 2 versions
• Key to validating if something should have been built in the first place
• Marketing may be more important than new features
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Learn
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• Was your hypothesis right?
• Did metrics improve?
PIVOT or PERSEVERE
• Pivot – a structured course correction designed to test a new fundamental hypothesis
• Don’t get stuck in Zombie land
• Example: online activism platform -> The Point -> local pizza coupon -> Groupon
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Lean Approach
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Can we improve?
• When problem is not really known, we value knowledge over working software
• Progress is measured by learning
Typical Development Process
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Where is learning?
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Tendency to overengineer
• Interfaces
• IOC / DI
• Separation of layers and DTOs
• Mocks vs test data
• (Over)analyzing requirements
• Patterns
• Excessive use of frameworks
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Agile vs Lean
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• Solution Unknown
• Elicit stories from customers
• 2-4 week sprints
• Continuous integration
• Done = working software
• Problem Unknown
• Validate features with market
• Get through the loop as fast as possible
• Continuous deployment
• Done = validated learning
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Conclusion
1. Define vision
2. Establish strategy
3. Start with MVP
4. Build a hypothesis
5. Measure metrics
6. Learn from data
7. Build value, cut waste
8. Pivot or persevere
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Credits
1. Eric Ries, Lean Startup
2. Abby Fichter, How Development Looks Different at a Startup
3. The HackerChick Blog
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Change the world!
Can one person change the world?
Company X vs AgileEngine
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• “We hire the best”
• “We value our developers”
• “We work with latest technologies”
• “We innovate”
• “Lots of projects”
• “Room to grow”
• “Trips to US”
• “Good work environment”
• Pass our development test
• Pay at the top end of market
• We invent latest technologies
• Build products
• Interesting projects
• Promote from within
• Relocation to the US
• Best looking girls!
Company X AgileEngine
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