This week on the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to Dan Olsen. Based in Silicon Valley, Dan is a consultant, speaker, host of the monthly Lean Product & Lean UX Meetup and author of bestselling ‘The Lean Product Playbook’. 

The Lean Product Playbook

0.00 Introduction

2.28 Tell us about your background and what fuels your passion for product development?

3.50 Why do products fail and why do organisations keep on building things that we may not want? 

5.14 Can you give us your definition or poor product fit? 

6.45 Talk us through the layers of the product-market fit model.

12.02 How do you build the awareness to recognise when you’re sliding into the solution before you have an understanding of the problem? 

15.26 Can you tell us the story of the space pen?

19.28 How do you help people to change their mindet around being able to avoid the immediate gratification?

24.28 Tell us what you’ve learnt about the idea of the MVP.

30.00 What’s the most extraordinary pivot that you’ve seen?

32.24 Can you say more about when it’s time to listen to the customer as opposed to when it’s time to take an alternative approach?

36.04 How should we be using data to better understand consumer behaviour?

38.16 The other problematic part of this is pricing. What have you learnt about approaching that?

43.20 What have you learnt about how to help leaders make better decisions and make good bets?

51.54 Given everything that’s happened in the last two years, how do you think that’s going to play out in terms of how people think about creating great products in the future?

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