I have spent the last few months with my latest start-up, Artfox, where I have been trying to push home some of the lean start-up advice expounded by Eric Ries and Steve Blank. I was hoping that "The Principles of Product Development Flow", by Donald Reinertsen, might help me in making a persuasive argument for some of the more troublesome concepts around minimum viable product and ensuring that feedback loops are in place with your customers as soon as possible. Unfortunately, I don't think that this is the book if you are looking for immediate, practical prescription, but it is a thought provoking, rigorous view of the product development process, that pulls together ideas from manufacturing, telecommunications and the Marines.
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