A hard part of customer development doing problem interview. It’s hard because interviewing strangers is not natural and its also actually hard to do the interview right.
The good news is that practice do make perfect, get it wrong a couple of times and you quickly understand what to correct and what to keep. If you want some simple exercices to improve your problem interview skills tweet this:
What exercice can I do to get better at problem interviews? @fdebane @adamberk
In the meantime, here the problem interview guide we use:
Download the problem interview guide
It’s to print and take as a memo for interviews.
Here is a guide to print and take as a memo for interviews.
You should not read the guide while doing the interview, but can refer to it inbetween interviews.
If you have to remember just 3 rules for problem interviews here they are:
- Do not talk about your business idea or product
- Ask about past events and behaviours
- No leading question, learn from the customer
Download the full problem interview guide
To capture the output of the interview, you can use the problem interview template.