A vision, a MVP, a product-market fit, a roadmap ... what are you trying to build ?
The product vision : building the core value proposition
How do you deliver the customer value ? the first step, the simplest version of your service : building the MVP
The first product and the roadmap
Navigating between high and low level assumptions of your product
The process : how do you get there ? Risky & iterative experimentations at each level ...
1 - Why do you make experimentation ? Apart from ideas based on facts, everything else is bulls**t
2 - How do you research & experiment ? (this is a basic one)
3 - What do you experiment ? which assumptions ? at what level of my product ? it depends where you stand
4 - How to test ? what experiment should I conduct ?
A real experimentation
Navigating between high and low level assumptions of your product
Testing while balancing risk and level of investment : the importance of the "RAT" - Riskiest Assumptions Tests
Building a MVP is an uncertain path strewn with pitfalls. While building your vision, your product and your service you'll risk either falling in quicksand : everything turns gray, everything turns in circles and you no longer know how to move forward or you grab the first rope that came and take the wrong direction, go backwards and lose time, money and energy.
In this small document we'll try to break down :
Your end goal is to build a product or a service that deliver great user and customer value and drive significant business impact with limited resources.
To do so, basically you’ll want to break down into 3 level of your strategy :