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Next, agree upon metrics of success. Eric Ries is great at this, so read his books The Lean Startup and The Startup Way to learn his in-depth methods for what he calls “Innovation Accounting.” But in short, the small team needs a set of metrics to define what a successful experimental outcome looks like. Note, these aren’t long-term business metrics; these are short-term experimental outcomes. Eric calls it validating your blind-faith assumptions.
Ask Your Developer
Jeff Lawson
A corollary of this is that everything you build and deploy needs to be instrumented such that you know how your products actually are being used. Without this data, you are flying blind.
(Stephen Bungay points out that a good strategy statement often “looks banal” to outsiders. The value comes from the alignment you create through the continuous process of articulating the strategy.)4
Sense and Respond
Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
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