Reading Guide
Customer and Problem Discovery

Lean Customer Development

Cindy Alvarez

The VMT Review

Alvarez provides practical guidance for conducting customer discovery inside both startups and established companies. The book is especially good at translating broad Lean Startup principles into interview preparation, recruiting, note-taking, synthesis, and organizational communication.

What the Reader Will Learn

Readers learn how to form hypotheses, find the right interviewees, ask behavioral questions, identify patterns, prevent confirmation bias, and turn customer learning into product decisions.