Running our first Let's Talk Product meetup - we did it!
Date posted
15 April 2019
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Running our first Let's Talk Product meetup - we did it!
This post was written with Olivia Sharp, Kainos Product Consultant
We're proud to say we ran our very first public product meetup last month, Let's Talk Product, in our lovely new London office.
40 people working in and around product management joined us for an evening of talks over beers and pizza. Our theme was product discoveries - what they are, different ways of running one, and what you should definitely avoid.
The talks
Here's a run-down of the brilliant talks from our 4 speakers, all experienced product leaders at Kainos.
Lean start-up discovery - Jayti Thakker
Jayti told us how to apply a lean methodology to discovery when there's only a limited brief and vision from senior managers.
Learnings:
- A kick-off is essential to define a vision and success criteria, and agree ways of working
- The principles of lean start-up can help the team to define, refine and conclude one or more hypotheses over the course of their discovery
- This approach can work in a discovery 'heartbeat' (see image) even though usually you see a lean start-up or hypothesis-driven approach at the prototyping stage of product delivery