PROCESS

The things we'll do together.

I need to figure out how to break this page into easily-digestible chunks where companies can identify the service they need and throw money at me to do it.

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Discovery

Establish our problem

Evaluate how we currently deliver value, how the market changes, what our channels are and what the competitive threats are.

Define our outcomes

Measurements of success must be outlined; know what users will do differently if the solution works and realise our customer success metrics.

Identify who we build for

Research who buys our product, who uses and configures it, to know who we’re targeting.

Understand power users

Find out why users seek out our product and what they gain from using it, then observe their behavioural change when they achieve their goal.

Hypothesise our success matrix

From all the previous points, one hypothesis can be made. Something like: <Business outcome> will be achieved if <user> attains <benefit> with <feature> (only one feature at a damn time). That can be split into a success matrix (list of things to try and nail).

Ideate / Design

Architect/ideate/conceptualise solutions

Crazy eights and whatnot.

Evaluate

Play off the concepts against the success matrix.

Identify Assumptions

Identify the riskiest assumptions; if this fails it will likely be due to assumptions. Work on risks-to-value rather than feasibility. If an assumption is very risky, consider it “wrong” and dismiss it.

Test Assumptions (sprint??)

Do the minimum amount of work to prove/disprove an assumption.

Plan

IA diagrams, roadmaps etc.

Build

Get the damn techies on it with me as the bridge?

Discover & research

This is where we write a summary sentence followed by the steps in here:

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  • Another thing we do
  • Something else
  • Often four things
  • Sometimes even five

Ideate & architect

This is where we write a summary sentence followed by the steps in here:

  • Thing we do
  • Another thing we do
  • Something else
  • Often four things
  • Sometimes even five

Design & develop

This is where we write a summary sentence followed by the steps in here:

  • Thing we do
  • Another thing we do
  • Something else
  • Often four things
  • Sometimes even five