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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Labels: product development Speed up or slow down?

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 11comments: Peter Severin said.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

Thats when this approach can pay huge dividends. This gets me into trouble, because it conjures up for some the idea that product development is simply a rote mechanical exercise of linear optimization. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

Unfortunately, after months or even years of development, many companies discover that customers arent willing to buy their new wares. Thats why some entrepreneurs are trying another approach to product launches: marketing a product online before spending much on research and development or inventory.

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How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 15comments: Anonymoussaid. Luckily, in most prevention situations, even the first few steps in prevention can pay time-savings dividends quickly. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

Because, unless you are working in an extremely static environment, your product development team is learning and getting better all the time. If thats not a team-wide phenomenon, then its still a form of waste, because everyone has to learn every lesson before it starts paying dividends. Share what you learn. Great post, Eric.