During MVP Conf 2015, Lauren Rabiano discussed how to add innovation and experimentation during your product lifecycles.

1. Building
experimentation into
your product
lifecycle

2. Experimentation and scale, two things we want
to achieve, are in direct conflict.

3. How do you make them work together so that
you can continue to push the envelope, while
also meeting your goals and deadlines?

4. Time and space for
innovation

5. “20% time”
is so bullshit and cliche by now, and honestly
doesn’t actually work.

6. Build 20% time into your projects / sprints /
iterations, rather into schedules of individuals.

7. Team structures to support it.

8. Chart here of a sprint team vs. embedded
innovation teams.

9. Hackathons. Seriously.

10. Means of measuring

11. Experimentation != doing random fun crap

12. A hypothesis, controls, results

14. Once-a-year all hands.

15. Smaller more team-based hackathons.

16. A plan for adopting
experiments

17. Hackathons can be where projects go to die.

18. Actually have a support system in place for
making experiments into tangible.

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