Key learning points on building a Rock Star product
June 26, 2012 by Stephanie SUTANTO
On 14th June, a workshop on “How to build a Rock Star product” was held to equip entrepreneurs with a better understanding of what is a good product development process, furnish them with the latest news on product design and the know-how on the relationship between Scrum-based development and key business decisions. Speakers included Tanguy Lesselin of Cartouche, Andy Marks and Xiaodan Wang of ThoughtWorks. The workshop was co-organized with SGE.
Check out the key learning points generously contributed by the speakers from the workshop:
Tanguy Lesselin
- Work Lean and Agile from the start to get fast to Product-Market Fit (in other words, admit from the start that you may be wrong with regards to your business and product vision)
- Try to make sound business decisions with your product plan by thinking in terms of potential ROI
- Aim at simplifying your product instead of just adding new features
- Do not compromise on software quality or the technical debt (and its accrued interests…) will accumulate too fast for you to be able to reimburse it
- Try to design a software / product architecture that leaves room for change in the future
- Do not reinvent the wheel, there are plenty of good libraries / tools / frameworks to help you gain time
- A good product is useful – usable – desirable
- Designers are key people to help make a great product
- Their mission is much wider than just making a beautiful graphical design
- You can do quick and dirty user testing to validate important hypotheses
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About The Author
Stephanie SUTANTO - Resident Contributing Writer
Stephanie is currently pursuing her undergraduate studies in the University of California, Los Angeles. She hopes to learn more about startups both in Los Angeles and in Southeast Asia, possibly starting one of her own in future. And yes, she prefers sashimi to chocolates and flowers any day. You can find her on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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