Discuss the theory you read about

🎯 Goal: To explain the product, MVP, feature, and user story concepts (15 minutes)

• Create a collaborative board with the following concepts

  • Product
  • MVP
  • Feature
  • User story

• Briefly discuss as a class what we mean by each concepts.

• Each trainee should write 1 phrase/word per Post-it (e.g. The first working software) and put it in against the concept (in this example, MVP) on the collaborative board

• Review the posts as a group

• Ensure any questions are clarified

Who will use your product?

🎯 Goal: To identify the users of a product (20 minutes)

During the previous week’s coursework, you defined your team’s product.

• Discuss the following questions as a team to identify your product’s users.

  • Who are your users?
  • What different user profiles will be?
  • What user needs does your product try to address?

• Write down a a short description of your product, users, and user needs, which will be played back to the wider group.

• One speaker will represent the team (ideally not the same person that talked in the previous lesson). Each speaker has only 1 minute to describe the product, user and user needs.

Make sure someone is the time keeper so all groups have the same amount of time.

Brainstorming about your users' problems

🎯 Goal: To identify how products achieve user needs (20 minutes)

In your teams, brainstorm the following questions to understand your product better.

• What is the functionality of your product?
• How does it address the user’s needs / solve their problem?

Pair with another team.

Share your answers to the questions above in turns.

Provide feedback, opinions, and additional suggestions to each other.