Kenny Lee

“Small, easy wins always get prioritised over difficult tasks. It’s like children choosing between chocolate and broccoli.”
― Gojko Adzic, Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your User Stories

“that an economically rational buyer would pay for a work product before, and after, the activity is performed.”
― Donald G. Reinertsen, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development

“People are used to sharing their activities in meetings, and so that’s what they do—instead of sharing what they learned, they share what they did.”
― Katherine Radeka, The Shortest Distance Between You and Your New Product: How Innovators Use Rapid Learning Cycles to Get Their Best Ideas to Market Faster, 2nd Edition

“If we push to make Key Decisions too early, then we are likely to revisit them later when it ‘s more expensive and painful to undo them. If we guess, we are much more likely to be wrong because it’s new to us. We handle Key Decisions in deliverables with placeholders: “This decision will be made at the September 30 Integration Event.” We can also put in provisional decisions: “The current plan is to use XYZ supplier’s solution, and we will finalize that decision on September 30 after we receive and test samples.”
― Katherine Radeka, The Shortest Distance Between You and Your New Product: How Innovators Use Rapid Learning Cycles to Get Their Best Ideas to Market Faster, 2nd Edition