The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen

Climb the product market fit pyramid from the bottom: market, needs, value, features, UX.

Three takeaways for AI PMs

• Work the pyramid bottom-up: Most AI pitches start at the top: here is the capability, who wants it.
• Score needs on importance and satisfaction: Interview ten target customers and have them rate each candidate need on both axes.
• Pick the MVP by hypothesis, not by scope

Do this Monday

• Before your next customer interview, prepare a list of eight candidate needs and ask each interviewee to rate importance and satisfaction out of ten.
• In your next PRD review, check that the five pyramid layers are each stated in one sentence; send it back if one is missing.
• Before the next build decision, write the single hypothesis the MVP will test and the number that would confirm it.