Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 25, 2010
This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. Pretty soon, a soul-searching meeting ensues. Labels: product development Speed up or slow down? Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends.
ConversionXL
MAY 1, 2017
Past Product: Lackluster Marketing Causes Growth Stalls, Too. These pitfalls are not limited to product development. Often, erosion of customer loyalty has been going on for years but the company has failed to perceive it—until it’s too late. Swimming with Sharks. Growth teams are like those sharks. Open Up the Ideation Process.
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Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
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. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
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. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 19, 2009
But instead of spending the time and money to develop products on spec, TPGTEX creates mocked-up webpages that list the features of a potential new product -- such as a system for making radio-frequency identification, or RFID, labels -- along with its price. Read the rest. Why didn’t we learn more? Read the rest.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 2, 2009
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. Instead of telling people to look for *the* root cause, I have them search for *a* or *some* root causes.
The Startup Toolkit
JANUARY 10, 2017
Unlike the much maligned case of a clueless business guy searching for indentured servants, he delivered real value and had secured a shocking number of customer commitments before the thing was built. After the team-poaching mentioned earlier, the goal ended up being to keep product development moving while a new tech team was found.
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