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How would you benchmark the productivity of a lean-startup product development team?

How would you benchmark the productivity of a product-development team in lean-startup? Why? In my experience at Food on the Table, we’ve been much more productive than any of the other early-stage startups I’ve been involved with. I believe that one of the causes is our pervasive use of lean-startup & feel as if we’re on to something important here. So, how can I (dis)prove this? Uh, really? I recognize the some of the inherent issues in my question: no accepted standard to compare productivity small sample size what’s the impact of environment & how can it be separated what does lean-startup have to do with this at all etc.

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