Lean Product Management

Lean Product Management is about understanding Lean principles, and optinally, how one can leverage Lean Startup in product management.

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Video of Hemal Kuntawala’s (Marks and Spencer, Pocket Shop, uSwitch.com) talk about Lean product development, fast feeback and leopard print, found on MindTheProduct.com. Here's the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/hemalkuntawala/mslabs-producttank

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Melissa Perri’s (ProdUX Labs, General Assemb.ly, FlowsBy, OpenSky) talk at Lean UX 2014 on Integrating Lean Startup

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Hubert Palan (ProductBoard.com, GoodData, Google) on how PD struggles with understandyng Prod Strategy, and how Designers are frustrated with Product Managers’ technical specs not having a clear “why” to them.

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Sébastien Sacard (MyFab.com, Fnac, DigitRE) explains his viewpoint of why “Lean [X]” is not applying Lean Startup to anything.

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Google Ventures talk by Dan Olsen (Intuit, Friendster, YourVersion) on “What is Lean Product Management?”

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Sébastien Sacard (MyFab.com, Fnac, DigitRE) argues that Lean PDM is not about lean startup, but rather about applying lean thinking principles. I don’t know if the term “lean product management” is centrally managed and thus if there is a right or wrong definition for the term, but there seems to be arguments both ways. Good post in any case.

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This is the highest ranked blog post by Giff Constable (Neo Innovation, Proof, Aprizi, The Electric Sheep Company) about lean product management on Google. For good reason.

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Emiel Van Est (Lean Management Teachers) & Pascal Pollet held a talk in the March of 2014 about what Taiichi Ohno actually sought after with lean.

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Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham wrote the classic post on "Do Things that Don't Scale", meaning that a startup cannot afford to treat their customers like big companies do.

Lean Product Managers can also embrace this mentality by getting to know their customers well before trying to automate or optimize processes that have not yet been proven to provide value for the customer.