Book Summary: The Lean Product Playbook

‘The Lean Product Playbook’ — by Dan Olsen

The Lean Product Playbook

by Dan Olsen

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Resonating Message

To create a successful product — you need to satisfy all layers of the Product-Market fit pyramid, ensuring you’re clear on who you are targeting the product for, what their needs are, and then creating a compelling offering that satisfies those needs with a compelling value proposition, feature set, and UX. The Lean Product Process sets out a six-step process to achieve this:

1. Determine your target customers
2. Identify underserved or unmet needs
3. Define a compelling value proposition
4. Identifying an MVP feature set
5. Creating your MVP prototype
6. Testing your MVP with customers

Chapter in one sentence

1. Achieving Product-Market Fit with the Lean Product Process: Building a product isn’t enough. You must ensure you understand the market forces — and build a product that connects with that market through a product-market fit.
2. Problem Space versus Solution Space: You must separate and use different techniques for the problem and solution space — leading first with the problem spaced focused on emphasizing with and understanding the needs of your target customer, before delving…