article thumbnail

How Smart Product Managers Use a Business Case

Innovation Excellence

Properly used, a business case embodies the essential learning and planning derived from Lean, Design Thinking, and similar approaches to product development. It is not a documentation exercise, but a tool for collaborative learning and communicating the justification for a product concept. Continue reading →

LEAN 40
article thumbnail

Bring Startup Speed to your Innovation Team with Personas

Your Ideas are Terrible

You don’t need pretty designs and glossy diagrams – in fact, putting this much work into production will create resistance to future changes. In Lean UX Jeff Gothelf prefers to use the term “proto-persona” with innovative teams. You can start with a simple Google doc like this one we created.