Agility Constraint Development Entrepreneur 
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 20, 2018
And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes were small — the famed “pivot.” Startups now had tools that sped up the search for customers, reduced time to market, and slashed the cost of development.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 8, 2011
The experience gave us some insights into a unique approach to innovation called jugaad , which entrepreneurs and enterprises are practicing in complex emerging markets like India. Jugaad is a Hindi word that loosely translates as "the gutsy art of overcoming harsh constraints by improvising an effective solution using limited resources."
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 14, 2015
As a practitioner of a design-led form of product development, and in my own research and writing about an empathetic approach to product design, I’m overtly critical of the Lean manifesto. Lean proposes a “test and measure” process of product development. But what is lost? Leverage A/B testing to compare variations.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 3, 2011
Lie #2: Product developer, "We'll be ready to ship in six months.". Product developers have every intention of finishing development on time, but invariably things take longer and cost more than people projected. The easiest way to address this lie is to change the development paradigm.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 14, 2016
Led by serial entrepreneurs. Unicorns are often founded and led by serial entrepreneurs, who have experienced business failures several times in their professional lives. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.
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