The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Dan Olsen (Author), Walter Dixon (Narrator), Gildan Media, LLC (Publisher)

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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.

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9 hours and 54 minutes
Author

Dan Olsen
Narrator

Walter Dixon
Audible release date

May 19 2016
Language

English
Publisher

Gildan Media, LLC
ASIN

B07281JBRR
Version

Unabridged
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Listening Length	9 hours and 54 minutes
Author	Dan Olsen
Narrator	Walter Dixon
Audible.ca Release Date	May 19 2016
Publisher	Gildan Media, LLC
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07281JBRR
Best Sellers Rank	#15,641 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #28 in Business Research & Development #46 in Production & Operations #49 in Production & Operations Management (Books)

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Adegoke

Fantastic content

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 15, 2022

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This book has really helped my day to day work and strategic approach. Good job by the author

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Ruben

Incredible book with lots of practical advice

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 15, 2022

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After reading "The Lean Startup", I did have a good idea on the lean movement and pattern that founders should follow to build theirs products. What I was lacking, however, is more of a step-by-step breakdown of what the process actually looks like starting from the idea to the first release. In his book, Dan covers a lot of those concepts with practical examples from identifying target customers to testing your MVP and iterating. I also found a lean product case study and agile tips in the end of the book incredibly helpful!
I highly recommend Dan's book to people who are after building great meaningful products and am very thankful to have come across it myself.

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J. Hogan

The only Product Management book you'll need

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 14, 2016

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I’ve read a number of Product Management books and “The Lean Product Playbook” is the only one that’s been able to clearly articulate what the role is and the value it brings.

The book covers everything you need to know, including: lean methodologies, human entered design, agile development and analytics. Of particular interest to me was the relationship between Product Management and Design. Olsen discusses in detail how the two roles partner with and support each other. His problem space and solution space framework was especially useful.

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Dave

Worth Every Dollar!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 25, 2020

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This book helped to crystallize my thinking. I hope I can work with Dan one on one to bring it to market.

Thanks Dan!

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Items damaged upon arrival

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 11, 2022

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I haven't yet read this book, so this review has nothing to do with the contents. I'm leaving a 1 star because although I ordered this book new, it was damaged upon arrrival. There was nothing wrong with the shipping box itself, but when I opened it, I noticed the sleeve was torn and crumpled and some of the pages were bent in.

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Lea Holmes

The most useful what to do and how to do map to ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 16, 2016

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The most useful what to do and how to do map to follow to successfully implement the Lean Start Up methodology. It takes all the components and breaks them down with deep insight by a man who has obviously done this successfully, many times over.

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Joe Red

What the Lean Startup should have been

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 20, 2016

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What frustrated me about the Lean Startup was the lack of practical examples, it was way too theoretical about its concepts. This book is what the Lean Startup should have been. Extremely practical and well-written.

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Came damaged

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Opened up the first page and the book was damaged.

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Poddy

Very practical if you find you want to get beyond the theory and do some of it!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 31, 2016

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Very easy to read, sometimes a bit dry and often its covering what is now, at least, very well known approaches. However, that said it also contain some key differences to other comparable books. I *think* I understand the theory around lean, good UX approach very well but sometimes it's hard to find actual practical descriptions of doing them in different stages of your customer / product development. What I am finding is that product development techniques are very well documented but customer development is still, even now, quite hard to vaguely described to where you should start. For this alone it gets 5 stars.

I don't think anything in this book will surprise you if you are vaguely in that startup / lean world (unless you think you are but aren't ;-) but it might just give you some pointers as to your blind spots and how to actually, practically carry them out. It did for me.

The other major factor I like is that he is very honest in how he has carried out the research and it isn't overblown or unachievable for most (i.e. just re-hashing the methods that the latest unicorn did which doesn't really translate very often - Uber, which is occasionally mentioned, found a really untapped customer need with huge potential; this is quite rare as is obvious from its outstanding success). There is a lot of people out there that will tell you unless it's huge sample sizes and you are getting statistically significant evidence then it's not worth doing. This is impractical in many B2B cases where its high value but a niche product. He seems to agree and suggest a modest number of well done and structured tests can give you good (enough) insight. I liked this approach as it gets round the all or nothing and makes you apply some rigour to the middle pathway.

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Kindle Customer

The book I recommend to learn or remind yourself of the fundamentals of product management

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 8, 2020

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If there were one book I’d recommend to learn or remind yourself of the fundamentals of product management, it would be The Lean Product Playbook. It's in my top 10 list of best product management books.

The book brings together ideas from Lean Startup and Lean UX to give you an actionable model for finding product-market fit. It consists of a 6-step process that explains 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.

It also comes with several real-world examples that illustrate the full product development lifecycle from a product management standpoint.

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Yonni.I

Great in places...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 29, 2021

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A worthwhile read that had a good balance between innovative tips and tricks, with relevant and familiar case studies where they were applied.

Two stars were deducted as it did feel a tad wordy in places with some elements repeated

Charles Atlas

BRILLIANT PLAYBOOK FOR ESTABLISHING PRODUCT MARKET FIT

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 21, 2020

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Dan has produced a simple and powerful manual for understanding and establishing product market fit for your new product or service. High recommend reading for every product development and innovation team,

afghan warrior

Great intro to PM

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 4, 2021

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I’m looking to start a new tech start up and this was invaluable for tips and tricks on good PM approaches.

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