Too much management in corporations, we crave true leadership. Identify great leaders Build and grow trust Embrace failure Create an environment Focus on what matters Atomise and keep things small Empower your teams Grow a strong culture Build it with your end users What would you add? Thanks to Bertrand Dour (presentation at Agile Tour Brussels 2016)
Team vision and discipline over individuals and interactions (or processes and tools) Validated learning over working software (or comprehensive documentation) Customer discovery over customer collaboration (or contract negotiation) Initiating change over responding to change (or following a plan) Source: http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2010/05/thank-you.html
The 7 product dimensions (by Ellen Gottesdiener) help to think to discover options of product and to create pieces of values. Download the PDF version of the 7 product dimensions
Incredible story before the 2000 “dot.com” boom illustrating the lack of customer development. Lesson learnt (by Steve Blank) – Business plans are the leading cause of startup death – No Business Plan survives first contact with a customer – Rapidly changing markets require continuous business model iteration/customer development – Your ability to raise money has no correlation with customer adoption Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/no-business-plan-survives-first-contact-with-a-customer–the-52-billion-dollar-mistake-2011-1
The BOOTSTART Manifesto (by Ash Maurya) describes some principles and attentions points for startups and products, based upon lean startup, customer development, running lean. There’s never been a better time to act on your “big idea”. Source: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*oCONCff8QNhO9dQkYhs0Pw.jpeg