3 Ways to Enhance Product Discovery and Value Delivery

Many teams know how important it is to rapidly discover customer needs, yet they feel held back by slow feedback loops or unclear value goals. Strengthening product discovery processes can significantly enhance product success.

Here are three steps that resonated with the most recent Value Outcome Leadership training cohort:

• Increase Feedback Frequency: 

  If you're currently collecting feedback data on an annual or six-month basis, consider shifting to quarterly, monthly, or real-time feedback using data slices and automation of the feedback process. This enables your team to iterate faster, reduce rework, and respond more quickly to customer insights. Ensuring you’re consistently delivering real value aligned with customer needs.

• Define Clear, Measurable Outcomes:

  Connect your work directly to business outcomes - rather than a list of deliverables. Frameworks such as Objectives with Key Results (OKRs) can help teams focus on discovery using “leading indicators” that reflect user behaviour (i.e. are we heading in the right direction), as well as “lagging indicators” that reflect desired business impact/result.

• Run Small-Scale Experiments: 

  Discovery means accepting that ideas need to be validated against the intended outcomes. Test new ideas through controlled, small experiments. This approach allows you to validate assumptions quickly, make data-informed adjustments, and see real-time results, helping you refine your product’s value with minimal risk.

Ready to elevate your product discovery and delivery processes? Join our Value Outcome Leadership Course to gain practical tools that empower product teams to discover true value and accelerate delivery.

Course Dates:

• 27th - 30th Jan (Virtual)
  12:00 - 15:00 GMT | 13:00 - 16:00 CET | 14:00 - 17:00 SAST

• 24th - 27th March (Virtual)
  12:00 - 15:00 GMT | 13:00 - 16:00 CET | 14:00 - 17:00 SAST

Is Your Portfolio Truly Focused on Value Delivery?

It’s easy to feel stuck in the cycle of internal funding and internal resource management. Many organisations are realising new ways to align resources with real value. Experience this shift with the Lean Portfolio Management Game.

This hands-on simulation dives into the power of value streams—helping you optimise flow with fewer silos, fewer handoffs, and greater knowledge retention within cross-functional teams.

💡 What you’ll learn:

• Prioritising Value Streams: Discover how cross-functional, long-lived, teams aligned to value can improve the portfolio value delivered.

• Cost of Delay: Understand how the cost of delay can impact portfolio success, and how to manage it.

• Thin Slices of Value: See the benefits of delivering thin, incremental value that allows you to pivot and respond to change swiftly.

Upcoming Workshop:
London - In- Person - 31st Jan
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London - In- Person - 28th March
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Ready to experience the shift to a value stream-aligned portfolio? Join us for the upcoming Lean Portfolio Management Game and experience the difference for yourself!

🚨 Spaces are limited—email [email protected] to secure yours! The Lean Portfolio Game is also perfect for your next off-site - get in touch to find out more.

What Change Management Patterns Lead to Authentic Improvement?

Change management can be challenging, especially when past initiatives have stalled. However, understanding key patterns and avoiding antipatterns can make a significant difference in your approach.

💡Key Takeaways from the most recent Pattens and Antipatterns training class cohort:

• Think Big, Start Small, Learn Fast: ‘North Star’s cannot be achieved in 1 step!  Envision the goal and identify the smallest possible steps to quickly build confidence, pivot the approach if needed, and amplify the wins you discover

• One size does not fit all: People are different, and “early adopters” will embrace change in a very different way from those who are more cautious. Work with your people's natural energy and allow different models for value generation within guard rails.

• Unlearning and Relearning: Role model curiosity and foster psychological safety to enable an environment where your teams can unlearn traditional mindsets and relearn new behaviours.

In the Business Agility Patterns and Antipatterns course, you'll discover how to implement sustainable change by focusing on Better Value Sooner Safer Happier (BVSSH) outcomes while avoiding “Big Bang Change,” which can overwhelm your people.

Course Dates:

• 3rd - 6th Feb (Virtual)
  12:00 - 15:00 GMT | 13:00 - 16:00 CET | 14:00 - 17:00 SAST

• 31st March - 3rd April (Virtual)
  12:00 - 15:00 GMT | 13:00 - 16:00 CET | 14:00 - 17:00 SAST

Execution: Where Strategy Meets Success

Crafting a strategy is just the beginning—execution is where value becomes real. Success requires:

• Testing Hypotheses: Be willing to pivot in the face of unexpected results.

• Maintaining Focus: Keep sight of the goal while communicating clearly with teams.

• Motivating Teams: Foster autonomy, mastery, and purpose as outlined in Daniel Pink’s Drive by using outcomes (OKRs), encouraging continuous learning, and aligning efforts with the overall organisational strategy.

Improving organisational outcomes through better ways of working requires a shift in behaviour by leaders at all levels, from Delivery to Executive.

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