Some colleagues and I recently read the Lean Startup together, and thought it’d be nice to have some reading comprehension questions to check if we took away the same things. Jacob made some questions, and I thought they might make an interesting LW post for other people who had read Lean Startup.
Feel free to reply with spoiler-blocked (Begin a line with >!) answers.
1. What is the difference between learning and validated learning?
2. True or false: “According to the author, a startup with exponential growth in metrics like revenue and number of customers is doing well.” Explain your answer.
3. Finish the sentence: “almost every lean startup technique we’ve discussed so far works its magic in two ways:”
4. Ries argues that startups should pay more attention to innovation accounting than traditional accounting. Name two ways in which startups can change their financial metrics to accomplish innovation accounting.
5. Describe, concretely, what a car company’s supply chain would look like if it used push vs pull inventory.
6. Ries applies the pull inventory model to startups. But what is the unit that is being pulled, and where does it obtain the “pull signal”?
7. True or false: “Lean manufacturing is meant to give manufacturers an advantage in domains of extreme uncertainty”. Explain your answer.
8. True or false: “Lean manufacturing is about harnessing the power of economies-of-scale.”
9. Ries discusses an anecdote of a family folding letters. The dad folds, stamps, and seals one letter at a time; whereas the kids begin by folding all letters, then stamping all, etc. Name two reasons Ries’ considers the dad’s method superior.
10. True or false: “A consequence of lean manufacturing is that the performance of each employee as an isolated unit, in terms of output per unit of time, might *decrease*.” Explain your answer.
11. Give an example of what a “large batch death spiral” might look like in practice.
12. According to Ries, the “Five why’s” method is a control system (though he doesn’t say so explicitly). What does it control, and how?
13. Explain the meaning of Toyota proverb “Stop production so that production never stops”
[Question] Lean Startup Reading Comprehension Quiz
Some colleagues and I recently read the Lean Startup together, and thought it’d be nice to have some reading comprehension questions to check if we took away the same things. Jacob made some questions, and I thought they might make an interesting LW post for other people who had read Lean Startup.
Feel free to reply with spoiler-blocked (Begin a line with
>!) answers.1. What is the difference between learning and validated learning?
2. True or false: “According to the author, a startup with exponential growth in metrics like revenue and number of customers is doing well.” Explain your answer.
3. Finish the sentence: “almost every lean startup technique we’ve discussed so far works its magic in two ways:”
4. Ries argues that startups should pay more attention to innovation accounting than traditional accounting. Name two ways in which startups can change their financial metrics to accomplish innovation accounting.
5. Describe, concretely, what a car company’s supply chain would look like if it used push vs pull inventory.
6. Ries applies the pull inventory model to startups. But what is the unit that is being pulled, and where does it obtain the “pull signal”?
7. True or false: “Lean manufacturing is meant to give manufacturers an advantage in domains of extreme uncertainty”. Explain your answer.
8. True or false: “Lean manufacturing is about harnessing the power of economies-of-scale.”
9. Ries discusses an anecdote of a family folding letters. The dad folds, stamps, and seals one letter at a time; whereas the kids begin by folding all letters, then stamping all, etc. Name two reasons Ries’ considers the dad’s method superior.
10. True or false: “A consequence of lean manufacturing is that the performance of each employee as an isolated unit, in terms of output per unit of time, might *decrease*.” Explain your answer.
11. Give an example of what a “large batch death spiral” might look like in practice.
12. According to Ries, the “Five why’s” method is a control system (though he doesn’t say so explicitly). What does it control, and how?
13. Explain the meaning of Toyota proverb “Stop production so that production never stops”