Lean Startup is a way for a group of people with a product idea to test it with the market and gain rapid feedback on whether the world wants what they’re building. “Love the Problem, Not Your Solution” – Ash Maurya. In this approach, the team work to discover their biggest risk, and then run a small experiment to validate their choices. Lean Startup is the source of the badly misunderstood MVP and the mis-used Pivot.
Resource Links:
- Find Better Problems Worth Solving with the Customer Forces Canvas
- The Lean Startup – an introduction to a practical blueprint
- Beyond the Basics of Lean Startup
- Case-Study: How A Scrappy Bootstrapped Team In The Middle Of Nowhere Used Lean Startup To Achieve Startup Success
- Lean Start-Up, and How It Almost Killed Our Company
- Why Lean Startup Is Hard In Practice
- Spruce, The Corporate Minimum Viable Product – a story of Lean Startup used for enterprise product development
- Why Lean Canvas vs Business Model Canvas?
Customer Interviews for LeanStartup:
- A Checklist of Lean Startup Customer Development Interview Questions
- How to Interview your Customers
- How to interview your potential customer
- How to Structure (and get the most out of) Customer Development Interviews
Books:
- The Lean Startup – Eric Ries – The original book that introduced the idea
- Running Lean – Ash Maurya – The book I recommend to most people as the most practical intro
- Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth – Ash Maurya
- Testing Business Ideas: A Field Guide for Rapid Experimentation – David J. Bland – Experiments that fit into the Lean Startup model
See Also:
Lean Startup Experiments
Product Discovery
Mark Levison has been helping Scrum teams and organizations with Agile, Scrum and Kanban style approaches since 2001. From certified scrum master training to custom Agile courses, he has helped well over 8,000 individuals, earning him respect and top rated reviews as one of the pioneers within the industry, as well as a raft of certifications from the ScrumAlliance. Mark has been a speaker at various Agile Conferences for more than 20 years, and is a published Scrum author with eBooks as well as articles on InfoQ.com, ScrumAlliance.org an AgileAlliance.org.
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