The Lean Product cluster
How to build the right thing.
Why these together
Build-Measure-Learn is the loop. Cost of Delay is the economic argument for tight loops. Outcome over Output is the standard for success. Jobs To Be Done is the framing of demand. Lean Enterprise is the operating model that supports the rest. Vanity vs Actionable Metrics keeps the measurements honest. OKRs are the alignment tool. Used carefully, they make outcomes visible across the organisation.
- Pattern Build-Measure-Learn Build the smallest thing that tests your idea. Measure what happens. Learn what to do next.
- Pattern Cost of Delay The economic value lost by waiting one more week to ship something. Often higher than the cost of doing it badly.
- Saying Outcome over Output Build to change something in the world, not to ship a feature.
- Framework Jobs To Be Done People do not buy products. They hire products to do a job. Understand the job.
- Framework Lean Enterprise An operating model for large organisations that want to be fast. Optimise the whole value stream. Build feedback into every step. Treat the business as a portfolio of experiments.
- Saying Vanity vs Actionable Metrics A vanity metric makes you feel good. An actionable metric changes a decision.
- Pattern OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) A method for aligning effort. Objectives describe what to achieve. Key Results describe how you would know.