Ash Maurya

The following is an excerpt from my book: Running Lean How to Iterate From Plan A to a Plan That Works Can you imagine Steve Jobs asking you what you would have been willing to pay for an iPad before it launched? Sounds ludicrous, right? Yet, you’ve probably asked

Eric Ries describes the three A’s of metrics as Actionable, Accessible, and Auditable. Today, I’d like to share our take on what it means for metrics to be accessible. What Are Accessible Metrics? 1. Everybody can see what’s going on The first part is making the metrics

Last week I soft-announced a new book I’m working on titled:” The Customer Factory.” It aims to address the #1 problem, in my opinion, that trips up most lean practitioners — crafting effective experiments that lead to breakthrough insights. Even though running experiments is a key activity in a lean

In my last post, I introduced the idea of establishing a standard measure of progress for your products using a handful of macro (versus micro) metrics measured in batches (or cohorts). Macro metrics are useful for learning or baselining while micro metrics are useful for optimizing or troubleshooting. The problem

One of the reasons measuring “true progress” in a product is hard is that we prefer reporting good news over bad. We like charts that trend up and to the right, which isn’t all that bad by itself until we start devising charts that can go nowhere but up

Lean emerged from the manufacturing world with a rallying cry for “waste reduction” in the production process. Lean Software drew parallels between hardware and software manufacturing processes and aimed to reduce waste also in the production process. Then Lean Startup came along and pointed out that efficient production is NOT

I recently caught up with Ben Yoskovitz, who co-authored Lean Analytics with Alistair Croll. In today’s world, where we can measure almost anything, we often end up drowning in a sea of numbers. Like Ben and Alistair, I, too, share the general tenant around “One Metric That Matters.” The

(This is a guest post by Lukas Fittl — a fellow Lean practitioner and Spark59er.) Enjoy… -Ash) Imagine the following situation: You are in the office working on the next release of your software product. Suddenly your co-founder storms in and starts talking about the excellent new idea he just had.

I love this time of the year. Everyone is upbeat around the holidays. The pace is slower. It gives me time to reflect. In the three short years since I started this blog, a lot has changed in my life. I just got back from a short trip to Japan