The Next Right Solution Canvas is a one-page template that guides Product Teams, Product Managers, and Product Owners in defining and building the next slice of your product.
Key Benefits:
• 🎯 Align efforts with customer and business outcomes
• 📋 Develop a clear, actionable strategy
• 🛠 Highlight crucial features
• 🔍 Validate assumptions with experiments
• 📊 Measure real impact
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🎯 Unclear Product Direction: Uncertain about the next steps to take in your product development?
🔄 Misaligned Goals: Struggling to align your team’s efforts with customer and business outcomes?
⏱️ Slow Iterations: Facing delays in delivering incremental improvements?
😕 Unvalidated Assumptions: Unsure if your solutions are effectively addressing real customer needs?
🤝 Disjointed Team Efforts: Lacking cohesion and clear strategy within your team?
🚀 Inefficient Experimentation: Struggling to learn quickly and validate your ideas?
😣 Uncertainty Paralysis: Stuck and unable to move forward due to overwhelming uncertainty?
The Next Right Solution Canvas is designed to address these challenges, helping Product Managers, Owners, and Teams take small, confident steps forward. Each step helps lift the fog of uncertainty, enabling you to learn and deliver value incrementally.
Imagine confidently navigating the path of product development, one step at a time. The Next Right Solution Canvas makes this possible by providing a clear, actionable framework that breaks down uncertainty and aligns your team. By taking small, deliberate steps, you can quickly inspect and adapt, learning whether you are on the right track sooner. This iterative approach not only lifts the fog of uncertainty but also ensures that each step you take delivers real, measurable impact. Embrace the Next Right Solution Canvas to turn uncertainty into opportunity and drive your product forward with confidence.
1. 🎯 Define Customer & Business Outcomes: Clearly outline the desired outcomes for both customers and the business. This ensures that every step you take is aligned with overall objectives.
2. 🛠️ Craft the Solution Approach: Develop a concise, actionable plan to address the defined outcomes. This approach helps in breaking down the solution into manageable parts.
3. 🔍 Highlight Key Features: Identify the high-level features and properties crucial to the next increment of your product. This keeps the development focused and relevant.
4. 🔬 Conduct Learning Experiments: Design and implement experiments to test assumptions and gather insights. This iterative process allows for quick adjustments and informed decisions.
5. 📊 Validate Value: Measure and track the real impact of your solutions on customer and business success. Use this data to continuously refine and improve your product.
By following these steps, you can confidently navigate product development, reduce uncertainty, and deliver incremental value effectively.
An Example of The Next Right Solution Canvas
Imagine how Airbnb could have pivoted during the pandemic using the NRS Canvas. With their business majorly threatened by reduced plane and train travel, Airbnb needed to adapt quickly to changing customer needs and constraints. They could start by discovering and articulating their customers’ needs when booking during a pandemic using the Jobs To Be Done template, the Customer Job Description. From there, they could narrow down which customer outcomes to focus on in the NRS Canvas. By utilizing the NRS Canvas, they could systematically define, plan, and implement the next right solution to address these challenges.
Airbnb could start by understanding the context, situation, and constraints of their customers during the pandemic. The job description would help them identify key functional, emotional, and social jobs their customers needed to get done.
Learn more about the Customer Job Description here.
Although Airbnb could try to solve all the needs in one big push, they did not have the luxury of time or the ability to absorb the big risk inherent in learning they were wrong too late. Instead, they could slice the problem into smaller, more focused outcomes to solve for. Using insights from the Customer Job Description, Airbnb could identify the most critical customer outcomes to address during the pandemic. Based on that narrow problem set, they designed a solution they could release and learn from sooner, ensuring they addressed the most pressing needs of their customers promptly.
The resulting implementation could be seen on the Airbnb homepage, which features nearby destinations. This caters to the need for safe travel during the pandemic, highlighting driving distance options and promoting a safe, relaxed travel experience.
This process demonstrates how Airbnb could have used the NRS Canvas to adapt and innovate during the pandemic, ensuring they could meet customer needs effectively and deliver value incrementally.
🔍 Focused Problem Solving: Break down complex challenges into smaller, manageable outcomes, ensuring targeted and effective solutions.
🎯 Customer-Centric Approach: Prioritize customer needs and outcomes, aligning efforts with what truly matters to users.
⚡ Quick Learning and Adaptation: Implement and test solutions incrementally, allowing for faster feedback and iteration.
📉 Reduced Risk: Minimize the risk of large-scale failures by validating assumptions and learning from each step before proceeding further.
📊 Data-Driven Decisions: Use real customer feedback and validation metrics to guide decisions, ensuring your solutions are based on evidence.
🛠 Strategic Feature Development: Focus on developing key features that address specific outcomes, avoiding unnecessary or low-impact features.
🤝 Enhanced Team Alignment: Align your team around clear, actionable goals, improving cohesion and focus.
🚀 Accelerated Delivery: Deliver incremental value to customers sooner, speeding up the time to market for effective solutions.
🔄 Continuous Improvement: Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement by regularly testing and refining solutions.
🏆 Competitive Advantage: Stay ahead of the competition with a responsive, customer-focused approach to product development.
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