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 .

Thank You“Life is too short to build something which nobody wants”