Developing The Lean Spec: Episode 9

01/19/17 • 42 min

Cindy F. Solomon of SUPA Product Academy chats with Malcolm Knapp of the Engineer Accelerator to implement the process that Malcolm teaches for creating the vision for a product prior to building it and the value to product managers of being trained to implement this process to increase effectiveness and efficiency of the product development phase and excellent product outcomes. In this 9th discussion of the series, the first in 2017, Cindy and Malcolm discuss what cohorts will learn in the Lean Spec training, consider how to map over domain expertise from across different functions and how is this relevant to other domains and product types. Listeners are invited to join the discussion, ask questions and provide your own perspectives and approaches for what process and tools you currently employ to arrive at a cross functional and validated vision of the product prior to build.

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