Eric Ries

Eric's take: The Lean Startup provides a scientific approach to creating and managing startups and get a desired product to customers' hands faster. The Lean Startup method teaches you how to drive a startup-how to steer, when to turn, and when to persevere-and grow a business with maximum acceleration. It is a principled approach to new product development.
Our take: In the hands of the pilot team, and eventually the whole population of the organization, the value of Eric's approach and tools is to empower, enable and enhance sensemaking-understanding-consensus building; and to facilitate iterative shared hypotheses validation and evaluation by all,​