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  • How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
  • By: Dan Olsen
  • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
  • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (108 ratings)
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Summary

The missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers love.

The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a start-up or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. This book helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, step-by-step guidance and advice.

The Lean Startup movement has contributed new and valuable ideas about product development and has generated lots of excitement. However, many companies have yet to successfully adopt Lean thinking. Despite their enthusiasm and familiarity with the high-level concepts, many teams run into challenges when trying to adopt Lean, because they feel like they lack specific guidance on what exactly they should be doing.

If you are interested in Lean Startup principles and want to apply them to develop winning products, this audiobook is for you. This book describes the Lean Product Process: a repeatable, easy-to-follow methodology for iterating your way to product-market fit. It walks you through how to:

  • Determine your target customers
  • Identify underserved customer needs
  • Create a winning product strategy
  • Decide on your Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
  • Design your MVP prototype
  • Test your MVP with customers
  • Iterate rapidly to achieve product-market fit

This book was written by entrepreneur and Lean product expert Dan Olsen, whose experience spans product management, UX design, coding, analytics, and marketing across a variety of products. As a hands-on consultant, he refined and applied the advice in this book as he helped many companies improve their product processes and build great products. His clients include Facebook, Box, Hightail, Epocrates, and Medallia.

Entrepreneurs, executives, product managers, designers, developers, marketers, analysts, and anyone who is passionate about building great products will find The Lean Product Playbook an indispensable resource.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2015 Dan Olsen (P)2016 Gildan Media LLC

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Boring and monotone narration

Listening to the audio book is almost like listening to a robot or somebody reading a boring manual, no dynamics, difficult to pay attention. The book itself contains great wisdom, it's one of the best for product management, but I regret buying the audiobook when I could read the book.

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Insightful, but very Software focused

Interesting listen but contrary to the description it is too heavily biased towards software development to really be applicable to other types of products

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practical value for those in appdev.

What made the experience of listening to The Lean Product Playbook the most enjoyable?

The practical application of the material covered. Very good covering of various methodologies as well as real life examples. Could easily implement some of the ideas and suggestions here into application development teams.

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What does Walter Dixon bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Wouldn't read a book, audio means I have time while walking , travelling etc.

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A good book for any manager or analyst in application development.

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Practical and to the point

As I was listening, I was delighted to hear about all tactic to tackle a current challenge and applied the advice immediately

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Good methodologies but hard to follow

The book goes into a lot of detail on how to construct a lean product process however there are several table and image references when following the audiobook. This becomes hard to follow when you're listening to the book during a commute or are restricted by internet access.

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Highly insightful!

Fundamental learnings from the stage of ideation to growth for anyone thinking of launching a startup.

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Great read!

Great read for anyone working, or hoping to work, in a product development environment. Extremely practical advice on how to ensure product marjet fit and optimise your product for success.

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great book

One of the best books on building products. I really liked this book and already applied some of the techniques.

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Exactly what I was missing. Everything U need in 1

Putting it all in one place - great job Dan!
Only when I started reading I realized how informative and complete ir is.

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Great book for PMs and startup founders

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Simply a brilliant guide. I learned a lot. However, some of the most complex frameworks were difficult to follow without the actual book (constant references to tables, charts, etc).

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