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Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process.
I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their developmentteam. I dont think so.
But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their developmentteam made me want to cringe. Expo SF (May.
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Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Expo SF (May.
I’ll join in the duediligence for my angel group, test for myself, and develop my informed opinion. The detailed look at the technology comes during duediligence, not in the plan or during the pitch. For business owners, I recommend a lean business plan as a dashboard and GPS.
Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? What is customer development? Expo SF (May.
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You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept.
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You don't have an "edge" just because you're passionate, hard-working, or "lean.". During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software productdevelopmentteams. Here's one tiny example: I give talks on peer code review at conferences.
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The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a productdevelopmentteam, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup productdevelopmentteam is a service organization. Labels: hiring , productdevelopment 5comments: TedHoward said.
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