Team Canvas - Bring Your Team on the Same Page

Lean Canvas is a one-page visual business plan that’s ongoing and actionable.

Finally, the last bucket is process, which describes how your team works together. You might have a superbly talented team with a very clear understanding of what the end goal is, but if it’s not apparent how everyone’s supposed to work together or what the team’s values are, then even simple tasks can get enormously complicated.

Put everyone on the same canvas at first. If you are building a multisided business,

engagement model around four key questions: ‘Why are we here?’, ‘Who are you?’, ‘What are we doing?’ and ‘How are we going to do it?’. Their model helps with alignment of teams, and directly corresponds to the discussions used to create an impact map.

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.