The Lean Startup

A startup is a human institution designed to create something new under extreme uncertainty. Definition, corrected.

The minimum viable product is not small, it's learning-optimized. My roadmap finally exhaled.

Build-measure-learn, but start with learn. Reading it backwards fixed my roadmap forwards.

Vanity metrics killed three of my dashboards. Actionable metrics or nothing.

Pivot or persevere, the meeting you must schedule before the runway schedules it for you.

The five whys get to root causes in five lines. Works on code, works on marriages.

Genchi genbutsu, go and see for yourself. The Toyota chapter beat every dashboard I own.

Innovation accounting, learning is measurable if you're honest. Honesty is the hard part.

Batch size beats speed. Envelopes, one at a time, taught me my bottleneck.

Carried out of it: if we're building the thing right, are we building the right thing? Ask both, weekly.