There is a myriad of reasons why most startups fail, ranging from a lack of organizational structure to minimal understanding of who their customer is or what their product should look like. Ten years ...

Developers embrace “lean” development, but entrepreneur Ash Maurya says they need to get back to the movement’s roots in manufacturing to understand how it can apply to user research. The reward? A ...

While Lean principles have been known and applied in a variety of manufacturing processes, the applications in product development have been slower to come. Several companies have also applied Lean to ...

In 2015, during my tenure at a large e-commerce company as a principal product manager, I found myself spearheading an ambitious project: expanding the company to more than 100 countries lacking a ...

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At least half of all product launches fail to live up to companies’ expectations. For every four projects that enter development, only one makes it to market, according to a recent study at Georgetown ...

Most entrepreneurs work endless hours to create the best product they can muster before taking it to market. Eric Ries thinks that’s the worst thing a start-up can do. Having failed several times ...

Lean thinking originated with the Toyota Production System. Its success in streamlining existing automotive manufacturing processes led to the adaptation of those principles to other areas of business ...

If every company has to be a technology company these days (because everything you make or sell either uses or at least relies on technology), then every company needs to know how to create products — ...

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