Team Canvas - Bring Your Team on the Same Page

A startup canvas, its close cousins the business model canvas, and the lean canvas are intended to be lightweight tools to call out these risks early and encourage the team to tackle them up front. I much prefer the startup canvas to old‐style business plans, but I have also observed that many startup teams still spend too much time on the canvas a

There are a number of canvas created by others that focus on product development, as shown in Table 4-1. Table 4-1. Visual ideation canvases Name Purpose The Lean Canvasa Makes the assumption that product/market fit is the riskiest hypothesis that must be tested. The Opportunity Canvasb Focuses discussions about what we’re building and why, then he

That said, you can use the startup canvas for simpler work, especially if you have a new product manager. The startup canvas can help that new product manager get a good holistic understanding of her product and understand the key areas of the affected business.

The Business Model Canvas, shown in Figure 4-3, was created by Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur along with 470 co-creators as a simple, visual business model design generator. It is a strategic management and entrepreneurial tool that enables teams to describe, design, challenge, invent, and pivot business models. Instead of writing a business pla