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Free Guide: Understanding Customer Value in Agile (with Templates & Tool List)
A Guide to Customer-Centric Product Development

Stop Building Features Nobody Wants
Download our free guide to understanding customer value in agile and start building features your customers truly need.
Learn practical techniques like Gemba walks, customer interviews, journey mapping, empathy mapping, and real-world frameworks from agile product teams.
Even high-performing Agile teams fall into what product expert Melissa Perri calls "the build trap" – focusing on shipping features instead of solving real customer problems.
This guide helps you escape that.
What’s Inside the Ebook
A comprehensive playbook for transforming how your team discovers, builds, and delivers genuine customer value.
- Foundations: The value exchange system and core agile mindsets
- Techniques: Gemba walks, interviews, CARE feedback loops
- Templates: Customer interviews, user journey mapping, persona design, empathy maps
- Practice: 30/60/90 day plan to embed customer learning
- Real-world stories: Frameworks used by teams at Atlassian, John Deere, Penpot, and more
What You’ll Learn
✅ What “customer value” really means in an agile context
✅ How to use continuous discovery and feedback loops
✅ Interview techniques and observation practices (Gemba walks)
✅ How to turn insights into journey maps, personas, and empathy maps
✅ A system to build customer understanding into your sprint cycle
Who This Guide Is For
- Product Managers & Owners who want to prioritise based on value
- UX Designers & Researchers creating user-centric experiences
- Agile Coaches & Scrum Masters embedding continuous learning
- Engineering Leaders aligning delivery to real outcomes
- Cross-functional Teams adopting customer-centric agile
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Everything you need to know about customer-centric product development
Customer value in agile is about solving real user problems, not just delivering features. Teams succeed when they shift from measuring velocity to measuring outcomes. Learn how in our free guide to understanding customer value in agile.
Start with interviews, Gemba walks, and journey mapping. These are all covered step-by-step in the Understanding Customer Value in Agile ebook, including templates and real-world examples from companies like Atlassian and John Deere.
Teams often fall into the “build trap,” focusing on features and velocity instead of real user needs. Our customer-centric agile guide explains how to refocus your agile process around value, empathy, and insight.
Our free ebook includes a step-by-step 30/60/90-day framework to embed customer insight practices into your agile workflow - including templates and tools. Get your free copy by filling up the form above.
Both. The ebook on understanding customer value is designed for product leaders, scrum teams, and cross-functional squads. It offers tactics and tools to embed customer insight into every sprint.
Customer-centric agile prioritizes understanding and solving real user problems through discovery and feedback. Product-centric agile risks building features without validating if they matter. This guide helps you shift to the former.
Yes. While the guide is tool-agnostic, it complements platforms like Jira, especially when paired with Easy Agile TeamRhythm for managing retros and feedback loops.
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