chris pedregal on building community products

Building a Community ProductChris Pedregal, Socratic

Community-Peripheral Community-Centric

Community-Peripheral Community-Centric

Building a Community Product

Chris Pedregal, Socratic

Building a Community Product

Chris Pedregal, Socratic

Your community is the product

Community influences all steps of the product lifecycle:

• What you build

• How you design it

• How you test it

• Measure success

What you build

What is the community doing/asking for?

Build Test MeasureDesign

Build Test MeasureDesign

Should this problem be solved with product or community?

Are the right people in your community?

Build Test MeasureDesign

How you design

Build Design

Am I building for outcomes, or to empower the community?

Test Measure

Build Design

Does this design reinforce the sense of community?

Test Measure

How you test

Design TestBuild

Can I test this manually, before building?

Measure

Design TestBuild

Is the community mature enough for this?

Measure

How you measure

Do this metric represent what’s happening in the community?

MeasureDesignBuild Test

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# New Answers on Socratic

Remember:Your community is the

product

Thank you!chris@socratic.org