Software Development: The Process

Abstract

In 2011, having spent the previous three years advising technology startup companies and entrepreneurs on how most efficiently to organize and allocate their resources and design their processes, Eric Ries set out his methodology in the book The Lean Startup, whose release was a catalytic event in the spread of the Lean Startup methodology. The philosophy of this movement—which articulates and advocates an efficient, continuous, scientific, and feedback-driven approach to product development at technology startups—informs this chapter.