Design Sprint and Lean Inception are two collaborative workshops that are often (incorrectly) used...
3 Differences Between Design Sprint and Lean Inception You Need To Know
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Lean Inception
Connecting the dots – Vision, OKR, Scrum, Lean Inception, Outcome and output
The very first step on making an enterprise succeed is by having a vision statement that anyone...
The MVP Canvas has been updated
This post has been updated. Please go to caroli.org/the-mvp-canvas for the latest version. [divider] One of the outcomes of the Lean Inception (described in the eBook To The Point) is the MVP Canvas. This canvas is the focal point of the governance model in the style...
Brilliant lifesaving MVP, a story from the Chilean mines
Have you ever thought about a lifesaving minimum viable product? I know someone that not only thought about it, but successfully created and evolved a lifesaving minimum viable product (MVP). On ScrumDayChile 2015 conference I had the pleasure to meet Eduardo Labarca...
The MVP Canvas
The MVP Canvas is a tool for validating product ideas. It’s a visual board (available here for download) that helps entrepreneurs align and define the strategy for the MVP – Minimum Viable Product, which is the simplest version of a product that can be released to the business (minimum product) and that can be effectively used and validated by the end user (viable product).
Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA)
MVP allows you to have a product in the hands of users quickly, at a low cost. However, this speed must be balanced with sustainability, which is where Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA) comes in. The sooner the product is used, the sooner you learn from real users to improve it. The best way to learn and evolve your product is based on usage. This is much better than looking at a blank sheet of paper trying to visualize how a system should work.
Failure, compartmentalization and learning
When designing MVPs you must optimize for learning, instead of purely delivery. With this in mind, the word failure has another meaning. An experiment will result into something. When thinking about a hypothesis or a feature, you might be thinking about it in a...
understanding teams’ deliverables and their dependencies
I was invited to facilitate a workshop to clarify four project teams’ deliverables and their dependencies. These teams are part of the same program of work. The workshop took 2 hours, and I followed an agenda to cover 4 topics, answering the following four questions:...