DevOps Culture and Practice with OpenShift

13. Measure and Learn

Startup success can be engineered by following the process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. – Eric Ries

In his book, The Lean Startup, Eric Ries describes a startup company as a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. He outlines a process to help deal with this uncertainty where a tight feedback loop is created around the creation of a minimum viable product (MVP). He argues that being able to react, fail fast, and use a data-driven approach to measurement assists in decision-making that is based on reason rather than emotion. This ability to learn from small experiments can be seen as a form of business agility – the ability ...