tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3520904763520245316.post3287778676322344824..comments2024-03-28T02:00:32.006-07:00Comments on BarefootLawyers International: Lean ICT4Law: Applying the principles of the lean startup entrepreneurship model to legal A2J projectsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3520904763520245316.post-31883259350701779222014-04-16T07:40:45.794-07:002014-04-16T07:40:45.794-07:00Kudos for compressing entire lean launchpad course...Kudos for compressing entire lean launchpad course in one blog post! <br /><br />You might want to look at Tapan Parikh ' s paper on user centered design approaches :<br />http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~parikh/projects/CAM/papers/parikh-thesis.pdf<br />ruchitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487123934452994831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3520904763520245316.post-83047911050571446852014-04-16T07:35:26.303-07:002014-04-16T07:35:26.303-07:00Great post Seema! You compressed entire lean launc...Great post Seema! You compressed entire lean launchpad course in one blog post! Kudos on that. <br />You might also want to look at Tapan Parikh paper on user centered design approaches:<br />http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~parikh/projects/CAM/papers/parikh-thesis.pdf<br />ruchitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02487123934452994831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3520904763520245316.post-57503437662544909062014-03-18T22:34:03.916-07:002014-03-18T22:34:03.916-07:00Hi Christina, Thanks for your comments. The lean s...Hi Christina, Thanks for your comments. The lean startup website calls the method scientific: http://theleanstartup.com/principles and Eric Ries describes the science behind it in his book, but I haven't read it. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09612185367267673844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3520904763520245316.post-19159831431701720702014-03-18T22:24:47.257-07:002014-03-18T22:24:47.257-07:00I'm glad you liked it Antonin! Loved the TED t...I'm glad you liked it Antonin! Loved the TED talk. Thanks for sharing that. Great comparison to the building the tower. I completely agree! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09612185367267673844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3520904763520245316.post-58222162208403163782014-03-14T19:22:21.264-07:002014-03-14T19:22:21.264-07:00Dear Seema,
I am really really really impressed b...Dear Seema,<br /><br />I am really really really impressed by your blog post, I mean really. I didn't know the Arunachalam's so thank you for sharing. Like Christina, I am very impressed about his own testing.<br /><br />I totally agree about your idea of using the lean startup methods for ICT4D projects (but also for projects in developed countries too!). <br /><br />About that you should look at the TED video "Build a tower, build a team" (http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower). It is about the "marshmallow problem. Its goal is simple: teams of four have to build the tallest structure with sticks of spaghetti and one marshmallow. The marshmallow has to be on top. It is a race of eighteen minutes. <br /><br />The reason why I am speaking about this example is that some very serious researches have been made about it and the first advice to build the tallest tower is to use an iterative process. If you try directly to build a very big tower, you have a lot of chance that the structure collapse at the end when you put the marshmallow at the top. On the contrary the study shows that if you begin with a little structure, and make an iterative process to make this first structure bigger and bigger (with the marshmallow at the top) you have much more chance to build a very tall tower : prototype matter! (just like in the lean startup methods you described).<br />Antonin Milzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15050884984474912698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3520904763520245316.post-39806384220727516902014-03-14T19:19:31.148-07:002014-03-14T19:19:31.148-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Antonin Milzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15050884984474912698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3520904763520245316.post-74690047010899265352014-03-11T10:36:15.090-07:002014-03-11T10:36:15.090-07:00Dear Seema,
Thanks for your great, inspirational...Dear Seema, <br /><br />Thanks for your great, inspirational blog post! Arunachalam is a hero and 100% committed! His own testing really impressed me. <br />I really love the idea of a Minimum Viable Product and focusing on whether a project should be built (by deploying it to users at an early stage) rather than obsessing over how to build it from the very beginning. It makes total sense and I'm kind of surprised to hear that this is not the way start-ups usually operate.<br />One quick question about the model: What do you mean when you say that the lean startup approach is scientific? It's a model, but how is it scientific? Christina G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10410511751244501226noreply@blogger.com