This document discusses lean startup practices and agile development. It promotes building minimum viable products and measuring results through quick iterations to gain validated learning. Diagrams show the lean startup cycle of making business hypotheses, defining experiments, building measurement into MVPs, measuring results, and deciding to persevere or pivot. The document advocates applying lean startup practices beyond just young tech ventures and emphasizes customer development through build-measure-learn cycles.

1. Bauen, Messen und Lernen im großen Stil –
vom Software-Konzern zurück zum Startup
Christian Binder, Microsoft
Dr. Tobias Hildenbrand, SAP AG

8. Flow of Value
Reduction of Waste
Transparency, with practices including
Scrum
Unit Testing
Test-Driven Development
Continuous Integration
Small Batches
Definition of Done
Exploratory Testing…

9. 2005
2011
2012
2012+

10. Lean Startups
“Lean-startup practices
aren’t just for young tech ventures”
Steve Blank
Customer Development requires
Build-Measure-Learn cycles
http://theleanstartup.com/principles

11. Build, Measure and Learn
in Quick Iterations

13. 1. MAKE BUSINESS HYPOTHESIS
A TESTABLE EXPERIMENT
2. DEFINE EXPERIMENT AS
MINIMUM VIABLE PRODUCT
(MVP)
3. BUILD
MEASUREMENT
INTO MVP
6. PERSEVERE OR PIVOT
5. GAIN
VALIDATED LEARNING
4. MEASURE
THE RESULTS

14. … " In Zuckerberg's S-1 letter from earlier in 2012, he wrote,
"The idea is that if you never break anything, you’re
probably not moving fast enough.“….
Source:
http://investing.covestor.com/2013/01/the-most-important-difference-between-facebook-andgoogle?aff=TAB&utm_source=TAB&utm_medium=taboola&utm_campaign=content

16. VS 2010
TF Service
VS2012 and beyond
n/a
~3 Weekly updates
Feature Packs &
Servicing
Quarterly updates
Bi-annual
Annual
(rapid cadence, cloud deployed)
Core product updates
(periodic, highly compatible)
Core product release
(new baseline, product upgrade)

17. Kanban support
Enhanced agile planning
Web testing code coverage
Enhanced Test Manager
Kanban customization
Work Item enhancements
TCM Web management
System Center integration
Windows Store development
enhancements
C++ targeting XP
Win Store Apps instrumentation
Win Phone unit tests
Testing scenarios for SharePoint
SharePoint IntelliTrace
LightSwitch HTML & SharePoint apps
Blend for WPF, SL, SketchFlow
Extended support for VS Updates
Code visualization: CodeMap
Blue theme
CodeMap debugger integration

18. Scenario
Scenario
Scenario
Experience
Team A
Team B
Stories
Stories
Stories
Stories
Stories
Stories
Stories
Stories

19. Done!

20. 10 – 12 weeks
6 weeks
3 weeks

21. Pre-Lean
Lean Dev
“Quarterly
Shipments”
up to 18 months
6 months
3 months

24. Keep Iterating
Sprint Results
Validate your
Assumption
Build Early
Prototypes

26. A Diverse Team…
An Iterative Approach…
A Creative
Space…

27. WORKING
Software

30. Rank
TFS ID
Resolution
PU
Hits
CABs
Details
#1
358582
Fixed
VS: Pro
1010
6.0%
45
xxxxxx.DLL!== [Crash32_Normal: 0xC0000005]
#2
276670
(Active)
VS: Ultimate
454
2.7%
9
xxxxxxx.DLL!xxxxxxxxxx [Crash32_Normal: 0xC0000005]
#3
378926
(Active)
NDP: WPF
326
1.9%
42
xxxxxxxx.DLL!unknown [Crash32_Normal: 0xC0000005]
#4
372955
(Active)
VS: Pro
313
1.9%
21
xxxxxxxx.DLL!Microsoft.VisualStudio.xxxxx
#5
374532
Fixed
VS: Ultimate
226
1.3%
8
xxxxxx.DLL!ScriptDM::xxxxxxxxxx::

40. Customer
Development
- Build
- Measure
- Learn
Agile Engineering
Teams and
Product Units
Business Thinking

41. cbinder@microsoft.com
tobias.hildenbrand@sap.com