Developing The Lean Spec: Episode 10

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 10th discussion of the series, the first
in 2017, Cindy and Malcolm discuss how specific you need to be
at that moment in the product process. Many people speak about the
product in a vague way and there is a necessary level of
specificity required to determine actionable items. There's a skill
to knowing how far/deep to go at this moment in the process - it is
a challenge to not jump to (for engineers) coding or identifying
materials - we don't want to spend time designing what we already
know before we uncover what we don't know - the Lean Spec
guarantees integration with other parts of the process aligning
across functions. System thinking, the proper hierarchical
organization of knowledge of what is known about the product
(product experience is the gestalt of the hardware, software and
the design - part of what you're trying to do is talk about
"experience" but not only the end-user perspective, but the
objective creation of the product). 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.