(2017-03-08) Steve Blank The No Excuses Culture

Steve Blank: The No Excuses Culture

do not walk into my office the day something is due and give me an excuse. It will cost you your job.” That kind of accountable.

dumping grounds for projects from both inside and outside of marketing – with everything being “priority one.”

We quickly put in a capacity/priority planning process

If someone outside of marketing wanted to add a new project before we had the resources, we made them decide which of their current projects they wanted to defer/kill (Development Queue)

And finally, each of the projects we did accept had to align with the overall Mission of the company and our department.