Lean plan as a 4 step process
Lean Planning is a 4-step process that helps entrepreneurs discover a business model that works and manage their company successfully.
1. Create a Lean Plan:
The lean planning methodology starts with one page only lean plan that can be created in minutes. It should be simple and include the following:
Template of a Lean Plan:

2. Test
the plan
The ideas of the lean plan can be validated by answering the following questions:
- Do the customers have a problem worth solving?
- Does the proposed solution actually solve the customers’ problem?
- Do the customers want to pay for the solution?
3. Review the results:
By reviewing the results of the customer needs and of any other information gathered there is a possibility of refining the solutions or even changing the definition of the problem for which a solution is proposed. This in turn can refine both the strategy and the tactics.
4. Revise the plan
As the lean plan is a process and not just a document it can be continuously improved. Lean planning never finishes. It is a process for running a business more effectively.
The detailed Business Plan
will be born from the lean plan. The bullets of the list will become sentences
and paragraphs.