Lean Documentation: Map the territory without docrot

Continuous Improvement the Lean Startup way

Continuous Improvement, or Kaizen, is possibly the main tenet of Agile and Lean. And…

Lean Hiring: time to outgrow the Unicorn Ninja Rockstar

Yesterday’s Cool, Today’s Lean

From the eighties until a few years ago, through the PC, Dot-Com, and Web 2.0 bubbles, we had a very definite idea of what a cool startup looked like. Flexible hours, telecommuting, space for individual creativity, sometimes geographically distributed, maybe even worldwide…

Your experience: handling Epics?

The term “epic” came into use in the Agile world, borrowing from the “user story” metaphor, to refer to a subproject, a larger-scale aggregation of work that needs to be split into smaller work items in order to be executed. Even Jeff Sutherland recommends you “further…

Your experience: MVPs and advertising?

Over the course of my career, I’ve given up on a number of MVPs that, a few months later, I wondered maybe just weren’t advertised enough, or correctly.

The “correctly” part is easy, once you’re aware of this issue; just treat the…