They may say you are nowhere close to delivering what Goliath can, but rapid innovation and agile engineering and relentless feature releases are hard to ignore, especially if you're charging pennies on the Goliath's dollar.
"We use this agile engineering model, but we couple it with this customer development philosophy and the business model canvas so that we are actually using agile engineering to test all of the hypothesis of the business," says Blank.
The article describes Lean as the search for a repeatable and scalable business model -- and business model design, customer development and agile engineering -- as the way you implement it.
Its curriculum is built on a framework of business model design, customer development and agile engineering - and its emphasis on evidence, Lessons Learned versus demos, makes it the world's most advanced accelerator.
The agile engineering approach was combined with the Ruby-on-Rails web development framework that uses a Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture pattern.
