One of the most critical Lean Startup concepts is the Minimum Viable Product. This workshop is for product managers and owners who wish to be strategic and tactical with MVPs that fit an agile culture of continuous development and learning. You’ll learn and practice building MVPs that reduce waste, build a shared team understanding, and create a path for successful innovation.

This workshop will take place at the Hotel Weitzer near the center of Graz. Details about the location will follow via mail.

Who is the workshop for?

• People involved in product development (designers, developers, engineers, product managers, product owners, startup founders, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs)
• Organizations interested in, intrigued by, or passionate about Lean Startup or Agile development
• Organizations and teams that would like more structure and process around their experimentation, validated learning, and customer development.

Workshop outline

• MVP definition and confusion
• Why MVPs work
• Keys to effective MVPs:
  • Continuous development
  • Shared understanding
  • Humility
• 13 types of MVPs
• Exercise 1: Designing an MVP
  • Assumptions about problem, market, & product
  • Experiment design
  • Metrics and KPIs
• What can go wrong
• Planning an MVP experiment
• Exercise 2: The Concierge MVP
  • Define a problem
  • Ideate a solution
  • Plan a manual way to provide value
  • The Concierge MVP board
• Experimentation cycles and culture
• The MVP threshold
• Exercise 3: Fake doors
  • Landing page
  • The button to nowhere
  • 404 testing
• Serving an MVP to customers
• Why asking “would you pay for it?” is bad and actually asking for payment is great
• Tracking MVP feedback:
  • When MVP is introduced
  • First impression
  • First interaction
  • First problem
  • First delight
  • Requests
  • Complaints
• Would Google do it?
• What’s your MVP?
• Wrap up and Q&A