Tag: Lean Startup Week

Video of My Lean Startup Week Talk on Distinguishing Signal from...

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Thanks to Eric Ries and the organizers for Lean Startup Week for allowing me to share video of my 15-minute talk from last year's event. One reason for sharing this today is to celebrate yesterday's initial release of the in-progress version of my book Measures of Success. If you buy the book now, you'll get a PDF of the first three chapters, or about 40% of the book's expected content.

The Collection of My Posts That Previewed #LeanStartupWeek

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Today is the start of the main two days of 2017's Lean Startup Week event. I'm presenting tomorrow and doing the Red Bead Experiment....

2-Data-Point Comparisons vs. Charts – NBA Big Man 3-Point Shots and...

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  So many of our business metrics are reported in terms of two-data point comparisons. How much did the metric change from last week? Web...

How Are “Quality Posters” Like This Still a Thing?

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Back in 2007, I wrote a blog post that highlighted (if not mocked) so-called "quality posters" that are, I suppose, intended to be helpful: https://www.leanblog.org/2007/04/krazy-kwality-posters/ Ten...

If You React to Every Blip in the Metrics, Then Nothing...

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Here's another post on the theme of performance metrics, as I'm talking about next week at Lean Startup Week (see yesterday's post or others...

The Joy and the Pain of Overreacting to Metrics

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As next week's Lean Startup Week approaches, I'm pretty laser focused on preparation for my: Facilitation of the famed Deming Red Bead Experiment My...

Why We Should All Consider Eric Ries’s “Employee’s Bill of Rights”

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As you might know from episode #290 of my podcast with Eric Ries on Monday, his new book was released on Tuesday: The Startup Way: How...

Don’t Turn Your Performance Metrics into “Success Theater”

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One of the phrases and concepts that I love from Eric Ries and The Lean Startup is the idea of "success theater," which describes the efforts...

How “Process Behavior Charts” Save Us Time and Help Us Sleep...

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I've been writing blog posts about using "process behavior charts" - a form of "Statistical Process Control (SPC) chart" or "control chart" that can be...

Stop Wasting People’s Time (in a #LeanStartup or any Organization) by...

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As Eric wrote about in The Lean Startup (and as many others say), time is the most precious commodity anybody has. I think that's true in startups and it's true in other organizations. Everybody says they don't have enough time. So, we have to use it wisely.