Rob Grady » Product http://www.robgrady.com Business, Tech and Start-Ups Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:33:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Inc Magazine article on ‘Lean Product Development’ http://www.robgrady.com/inc-magazine-article-on-lean-product-development/ http://www.robgrady.com/inc-magazine-article-on-lean-product-development/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:44:46 +0000 Rob Grady http://www.robgrady.com/2009/10/inc-magazine-article-on-lean-product-development/ Inc Magazine has an article on ‘Lean Product Development’, an emerging business philosophy that has recently gained a lot of momentum. Applying lean concepts to product management is the latest in the application of lean manufacturing to software development over the last few years.

While a Lean Product Development, evangelized by Eric Ries and Steve Blank, appears to be the latest business fad it has several key concepts that apply to any business. The Minimal Viable Product and Steve Blank’s Customer Development concepts are really common sense elements that many organization’s, large and small, ignore. Definitely check it out.

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