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The Productive Programmer | Book Series

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Overview: This book helps Software Developers build a better career in future with proven ways to produce faster, cheaper and better software. The book offers important efficient and productivity tools that you just will adopt promptly, notwithstanding what platform you utilize. Neal Ford, the Master developer not only solely offers suggestions on the mechanics of productivity but also gives tips on how to be smarter, reject interruptions, get the foremost out of your computer, and avoid repetition. The author additionally, details valuable practices which will assist you to elude common traps, improve your code, and become more valuable to your team.

Author:

Neal Ford

Published In:

2008

Customer Development | Glossary

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Definition

Customer Development is a framework that consists of four steps, namely:

  • Customer discovery – Understanding customer needs and your ability to satisfy them
  • Customer validation – Building the right product that satisfies the customer needs
  • Company creation – Determining your product’s ability to satisfy  the customers needs
  • Company building – Growing your organization in order to support the demand for the product

The framework provides a method of application that validates postulations about your product and/or business and understand working with ‘User needs’. This is widely applied in the ‘Lean Startup’ approach.

 

Further Reading

  • “Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers”(book), by Cindy Alvarez.
  • For more on Customer Development, read here.