Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking
summary
A concrete playbook reconciles Lean Startup, Design Thinking, and Agile by prioritizing values over rituals: ten principles (customer outcomes, short cycles, retros, radical transparency) plus tactics like unified backlogs, hypothesis-driven prioritization and the high-risk high-value quadrant. Examples include a Wizard of Oz experiment for voice UI and a disguised test seat for self-driving cars as low-cost rapid learning techniques. Each pattern measures success by changed customer behavior and short-cycle evidence rather than output velocity.
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chapters (56)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:25Movie Scene
- 2:28Joe Pesci Quote
- 3:27What happened to my eyes
- 5:28Fix everything with process
- 6:11Startups dont have this problem
- 8:20Why Lean and Agile dont work in larger organizations
- 10:31A terrible chart
- 12:26What is Agile
- 14:18Agile Process
- 15:43Lean
- 17:25Lean and Agile
- 18:20Design Thinking
- 18:57Design Tools
- 19:12Empathy
- 20:03Frankenstein Process
- 20:21Principles
- 21:03Customer Value
- 21:37Gibson Guitars
- 22:25Gibson Website
- 22:52Fender Website
- 23:22Usercentered perspective
- 23:41Agile language
- 24:05Outcomes
- 24:41Short cycles
- 25:34Collecting evidence
- 26:26Shorter cycles means lower investments
- 26:50Ask these two questions
- 27:21Risk the fastest
- 27:47Retros
- 29:06Go and See
- 30:06Test Only HighRisk Hypothesis
- 30:30Hypothesis Statements
- 31:19The Problem
- 32:09High Risk Low Value
- 32:53Do Less
- 33:30Traditional Research
- 34:00Whats the fastest way to learn
- 34:45Wizard of Oz
- 35:24Selfdriving cars
- 35:35Ford Motor Company
- 35:59Why right
- 36:39Balance
- 36:53Teams
- 38:50Rogue Developer Award
- 39:17Radical Transparency
- 39:42The Karate Kid
- 41:17Black Friday
- 41:32MVP
- 42:01Access to data
- 42:46Incentives
- 43:27Are you there to
- 44:03Last principle
- 44:46Visualization
- 45:23Prioritize
- 46:01Summary
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