Lean startup approaches make sense when you do not know the problem that you're solving. You perform experiments and pivot as you blindly search for a domain whose problems you can solve and make money doing it.
Here, we know what our problems are. This is not to say that we should not collect metrics. However, we barely have enough energy to keep things going as it is. We don't have the bandwidth to perform multiple experiments. Regards, Alan On May 10, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Eric Johnson <e...@tibco.com> wrote: > If this was a software project, and the appropriate answer was unknown, they > you might apply a "lean startup" approach, and figure out how to run tests to > see which way works best. > > Given the number of incubating projects, should be easy to run some > experiments. Then you just need to build up some consensus on how to run the > experiments. And how to evaluate the results. Essential to establish some > metrics that will correlate with success. Then run the experiments for a > while (three months, six months?). At the end, you'll have actual data that > will inform a decision. > > Eric. > > On 5/10/13 9:25 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: >> So, here we have: >> >> Alan's idea of removing champions and shepherds and demanding mentor >> recommitment, with the 'teeth' of putting podlings on ice if they >> can't muster an adequate mentor squad. >> >> My idea of asking champions to step up to some specific supervision >> responsibility, thus allowing some flexibility for some mentors to be >> more 'supervisory' than others. >> >> Ross' ideas about shepherds, >> >> Chris' proposal to push the self-destruct button. >> >> Does anyone have a suggestion for a decision procedure? I don't see, >> or foresee, a consensus for any of these. >> >> My draft board report says that if we don't find a way forward in time >> for the June board meeting, I propose to discuss the situation with >> the board. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
