If you want to create a valid MVP from your idea you have to follow some simple steps to help you to transform ideas in business ideas. This is a lesson I did at the Founder Institute about the process between the brainstorming and a MVP creation.

1. From brainstorming to
Product Development
francesco fullone
ff@ideato.it
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2. What to do
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3. What to do
(in a couple of days)
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4. meet entrepreneurs
with a great
big idea
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5. reduce the idea
complexity
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6. reduce the idea
complexity
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7. reduce the idea
complexity
removing the “waste”
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8. reduce the idea
complexity
removing the “waste”
“drawing” its process
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9. reduce the idea
complexity
removing the “waste”
“drawing” its process
focusing on “Unique Value Prop.”
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10. reduce the idea
complexity
removing the “waste”
“drawing” its process
focusing on “Unique Value Prop.”
splitting it in smaller “User Stories”
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11. the Brainstorming
process
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12. use, or produce, a business
model canvas (or a lean canvas)
as a starting point
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13. don’t use technology and don’t
talk about technologies
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14. uncover the processes needed
to reach “the solution”, or
even better the “Unique Value
Proposition”
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15. identify the product
owner and write
user stories/
scenarios with him
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16. using paper
prototypes sketch an
approximative
interface, mapping
all the user stories
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17. VP
!M
using paper
prototypes sketch an
approximative
interface, mapping
all the user stories
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18. the planning process
(re-iterate as your wish)
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19. use a kinda-SWOT analysis
on Unique Value Proposition
to prioritize user stories in
the MVP building process
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20. Tech UVP (s/o)
approach
2 1
complexity
(w/t)
3 4
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21. Biz UVP (s/o)
approach
1 2
complexity
(w/t)
3 4
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22. kanban board
to do doing done
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23. Product
MVP development
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24. test the MVP
assumptions
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25. Value Proposition Canvas
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26. Value Proposition Canvas
gain
gains
products & creators
services
customer
jobs
pain
pains
relievers
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27. (if possible) test the
paper prototype on
users
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28. (if possible) test the
paper prototype on
users
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29. build MVPs
more than one if needed
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30. agile/lean
processes
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31. brainstorming tools
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32. whiteboard, pencil,
paper & post-it
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33. Questions?
skype: ffullone
twitter: fullo
email: ff@ideato.it
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