On 14th June, a workshop on “How to build a Rock Star product” was held to equip entrepreneurs with a better understanding of what is a good product development process, furnish them with the latest news on product design and the know-how on the relationship between Scrum-based development and key business decisions. Speakers included Tanguy Lesselin of Cartouche, Andy Marks and Xiaodan Wang of ThoughtWorks. The workshop was co-organized with SGE.
Check out the key learning points generously contributed by the speakers from the workshop:
Tanguy Lesselin
- Work Lean and Agile from the start to get fast to Product-Market Fit (in other words, admit from the start that you may be wrong with regards to your business and product vision)
- Try to make sound business decisions with your product plan by thinking in terms of potential ROI
- Aim at simplifying your product instead of just adding new features
How to make a Rock Star Product?
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Andy Marks
- Do not compromise on software quality or the technical debt (and its accrued interests…) will accumulate too fast for you to be able to reimburse it
- Try to design a software / product architecture that leaves room for change in the future
- Do not reinvent the wheel, there are plenty of good libraries / tools / frameworks to help you gain time
Quality versus-speed-tradeoffs
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Xiaodan Wang
- A good product is useful – usable – desirable
- Designers are key people to help make a great product
- Their mission is much wider than just making a beautiful graphical design
- You can do quick and dirty user testing to validate important hypotheses
Product design – a designer’s perspective
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