Post on 28-Jul-2015
Unknown Terrain-Use Lean Startup
Prepared by :Anish Cheriyan, Director, Huawei & Ranjit Nath, Director, Huawei Drawing by Laurent Meurisse
Topics
• Typical Challenges of Large Organization• Development method based on degree of uncertainty• Background of the Business Problem• Lean Startup in the context of the project
Typical Challenges of Big Organization
• One size fits all solution for the management method
• Failure is a failure• Delayed Validated Learning
One size fits all solution for the management method
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Large Organization have ready made past proven life cycle following waterfall, scrum, scrumban or related life cycle. Teams somehow forcefiet the project into such framework.
What happens if you fail
Failure is not considered good in most situations or may be in all situations.
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Delayed Validated Learning
In most cases the validated learning comes after we do the big bang development.
Concept
Plan
Design
and
Develop
Testing
Release
Beta Test
Final
Release
Most learning
happen here
2 week to 3 months duration
Method based on degree of uncertainty
Based on degree of uncertainty development method can be used.
Background of the Business Problem
• Embedded Development.• Customer was not clear about the
problem.• Not clear about what feature is
required.
“A Startup is a human institutiondesigned to deliver a product or serviceunder conditions of extreme uncertainty”Eric Ries
Our Approach
Concept Plan …
Problem Validati
on
Solution Validati
on
Scale
We used the Lean Startup framework to validate the problem and the solution and for scaling we used the product development life cyde
Key Practices used
We used the Lean Startup framework to validate the problem and the solution and for scaling we used the product development life cycle.
Problem Validati
on
Solution Validati
on
Scale
We are here
Build
MeasureLearn
Key Practices used
. Lean Canvas
. Interview, . Survey
. Presentation
. Go out of the building. Wireframing
. Wireframing
. Working Prototype
. Iterative Development. Customer Demo. One Metric that matters
Concept
Plan
Develop
Release
. Scrum Life Cycle
. Continuous Delivery
. All related practices
Lean Canvas, Wireframing and iterative development practices were extensively used.
Key Results
• We have been able to finalize around 15 key features of the product using Lean Startup.
• Right now realization is in progress.• We are 100% confident about the success of these
features as customer has seen the working feature.
My Personal Learning
• For every work which I do, I use the problem and solution validation approach and use the Build measure and learn cycle .