Happy programmers working on not so lean startups
This article is my effort to bring the founder perspective to a lean team. Most programmers I know would love to work on a lean startup they are passionate about. Getting the product out to the customer faster, building tools to test the outcome, delivering value to the customer in small increments as we continue to gauge the response. These practices provide less uncertainty on whether or not the product is successful. While we sometimes have to abandon an experiment because of market failure, there is no waste. By contrast, delivering software for a startup founder so that we may raise venture capital is more complex. Prior to having that customer feedback, the team has to come up with creative ways to anticipate what should be the MVP that would deliver the most value to the founder. Building lean software is all about reducing waste, and programmers involved in lean software are conscious of this at all times. The hardest part for such founder-based teams is to ite