This is the ideal book to read if you are starting a software business with plenty of funding and want to get some ideas for how to organise your research and development. Its claim to have more general applicability is not a strong one. It is full of industry specific examples and acronyms. You need to have a reasonable grasp of the computer industry's jargon as well. Having said that I did persevere to the end.
There are a couple of interesting ideas in there. I happen to be fairly familiar with Japanese quality control techniques. These were developed in manufacturing environments but they can be adapted to other applications. This is something I have been doing for years but it was interesting to see how someone else had gone about it.
But the main thing that kept me from giving up halfway was the insistence on experiment and testing. This is a strong theme of The Lean Start Up. Only by dispensing with wishful thinking, what Ries calls Vanity Metrics, and focusing on the real results which actually matter can we make any real progress. That is an idea that it is worth putting up with some jargon to really bed in.
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