Crystal Ball: What We'll Think About "Lean Startup" In Five Years

We've seen XP and we've seen Scrum, and now we're seeing Lean Startup. This isn't our first engineering fad. We all know that some aspects of every fad become standard practice, and others will never gain adoption. For instance, unit testing, continuous integration, and daily scrums are standard operating procedure nowadays. On the other hand, pair programming never became popular, and fixed-length iterations may be dying out.

So, which aspects of Lean Startup will become standard practice in five years? And which ones will fade away? Let's peer into the 4Cups Crystal Ball...

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