Lean product thinking is a way of life.
My Introduction
G'day, my name is Kurt Yang,
a passionate lean product management practitioner,
based in Sydney Australia.
I am passionate about helping organisations and individuals to improve their goals and solve their problems effectively with lean product thinking methodology. I have years of product management experience accumulated from various start-ups, scale-ups and enterprises, across multiple industries. During these tenures, I refined my product management skills and gained solid product coaching and mentoring skills.
I also gained invaluable product consulting experience during my recent tenure at VMware Tanzu Labs, formally known as Pivotal Labs which had been one of the best software product development consultancy providers globally in the past 30 years.
My Services
Product Consulting
I help tech startups and SME organisations solve their key business problems and drive business growth by utilising my lean product management, growth, pricing and business model innovation skills gained throughout my product and commercial career.
Here are the main product consulting services I offer:
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Business Problem Discovery
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Growth and Pricing Strategy Improvement
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Finding Product Market Fit
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Digital Strategy Creation
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Business Model Innovation
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Reducing Product Development Investment Risk
Product Coaching
I help aspiring and junior product managers improve their product management skills, then land and succeed in their desired PM roles. I also help other industry professionals to succeed in their own roles by learning the transferable PM skills.
Here are the main types of customer personas I can provide coaching support for:
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Aspiring Product Managers
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Junior Product Managers
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Other Professionals
What is lean product thinking?
Lean product thinking is a methodology originally designed to help organizations bring products to market more quickly by trimming excess and inculcating customer feedback at each step of the development process. Nowadays it can also be applied to indviduals to help us achieve our goals faster with less effort in work and personal lives.
Lean product thinking was successfully pioneered by Toyota back in 1930s with the creation of their Toyota Production System. It aimed to help Toyota bring products to market faster while optimising resources by focusing on driving customer value, waste reduction and continous learning. Toyota’s success has led to the early rise of lean thinking across various industries, from manufacturing to healthcare.
With the fast development of digital technology in the last 30 years, it became a popular and critical product development methology again, especially after Eric Ries published his book The Lean Startup. In his book, Eric introduced the lean metholodogy which emphases validated learning, rapid experimentation and agility. Although a lot of the learning essences in the book were extracted from startup best practices, they can definitely also be applied to larger organisations and individuals.
