Lean Principles

Collected at Lean UX NYC 2013

• Chances favours the prepared mind (Pascal)
• Prototypes should tie research goals to experimentation (Jeff Gothelf)
• Lean is not cheap, it’s being able to adapt (Mona Patel)
• Lean is not “fuck it ship it” (Bill Beard)
• In the enterprise Lean means crap, lean scares people because they don’t know what it is. It sounds like Ugly, broken, cheap while it’s about metrics and validated learning. (Melissa Perri)
• The biology metahphor (continuous evolvability and membranes) replaces the engineering metahpor (top-down and walls) (Alicia Juarriero)
• Act like a complex adaptive systems: adopt resilience and emergence not stability. To evolve means to evolve towards more evolvability.. Top-down gives general orientation and institutional memory (Alicia Juarriero)
• No problem is a problem (John Shook)
• Lean is about LeaRn (John Shook)
• K type and r types reproduction law
• Design for a desirable present rather than an hypothetical future. (Jabe Bloom)
• Design for flexibility instead of trying to anticipate the future (Jabe Bloom)
• Launch first, discover later (Martin Belam, this one from iA Summit San Diego 2013)

This article is part of a Collection on Lean UX. Most ideas and inspiration comes from Lean UX NYC 2014 with no doubt the best conference I’ve ever been.