Fail your Way to Success - For Learning Organisations
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The document discusses using experiments and failure as a way to learn and improve. It provides examples of experiments that could be run by product teams and to improve company culture. The key messages are: - Experiments allow teams to test assumptions in a minimal and low-risk way to learn without large failures. - Both product features and cultural initiatives within companies can be tested through experiments. - Learning is optimized when experiments have around a 50% chance of success; this allows teams to fail fast and learn quickly. - Companies should aim to run more, smaller experiments over time to accelerate learning.
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- 1. Failing Our Way to Success Agile South Coast – April 2016 Andrea Darabos Andrea@leanadvantage.co.uk
- 2. Andrea Darabos Lean Agile Coach: Lean Growth, Lean Change Andrea@leanadvantage.co.uk Brand © Happy Melly version 1.00 management30.com
- 3. Failure = Losing Since our childhood we hear
- 5. •Failure •Experimentation •Exercise: How to Experiment More in Your Team?
- 6. Share a Failure • What did you intend to do? • What happened? • What did you learn?
- 7. Example from Lean Advantage Sales Team’s KANBAN
- 8. Can We Use Failure to Learn More and Faster? The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else. - Eric Ries, The Lean Startup
- 9. We need a scientific approach to define, run and learn from experiments
- 10. Lean Startup is About Experimentation ideas productdata measure Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation…, 2011
- 11. An experiment is a (scientific) method to test whether a small next step can bring us closer to our goal Now Next Goal Experiments Image by Tobias Leonhardt
- 13. LEAN ADVANTAGE Ltd. www.leanadvantage.co.uk Say hello at: hello@leanadvantage.co.uk State your Assumption Make it Minimal Connect it to Your Goal Have a Pass Condition Think Creatively EXPERIMENT CARD
- 14. LEAN ADVANTAGE Ltd. www.leanadvantage.co.uk Say hello at: hello@leanadvantage.co.uk State your Assumption Make it Minimal Connect it to Your Goal Have a Pass Condition Will bring us closer to <goal > To verify that we will <run this small test> We will know we were right if <Quantitative or qualitative pass criteria> We assume that <doing x> Think Creatively EXPERIMENT CARD
- 15. Opportunities for experimentation are everywhere! An experiment to improve Culture and Teamwork
- 16. Andrea Darabos Leadership and innovation coach, speaker, trainer
- 18. Goal: strengthen our culture by practicing our values Assumption: Gratitude (KUDO cards) will help us live our values Test: Run a weekly cake meeting at our wall and distribute KUDOs. Success if >5 KUDOS distributed
- 20. The Celebration Grid – management30.com MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES LEARNING SUCCESS FAILURE
- 21. MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES LEARNING SUCCESS FAILURE We run experiments when we don’t know if we will succeed.
- 22. MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES LEARNING SUCCESS FAILURE With all experiments, there is a good chance of failing.
- 23. Learning is optimal when we have a 50/50 chance of succeeding. MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES LEARNING SUCCESS FAILURE
- 24. •Which ended up as a success? •Which failed? •What have you learned? Share an Experiment
- 25. Don’t change things; run experiments. Label your next new idea an experiment, and let everyone know that you are just testing it out. - David & Tom Kelley, Creative Confidence
- 26. We need to create moments to evaluate our experiments. I suggested that maybe we should have a big bell in the office, so that we could ring it whenever there was something to celebrate. source: #Workout, “Yay! Questions & Celebration Grids” http://m30.me/workout
- 27. Set an explicit constraint on learning and experimentation 20% Time Exploration Days Learning Tribes
- 28. How would you encourage experimentation in your team/company? What specific things would you do?
- 30. Opportunities for experimentation are everywhere! 2 examples • Product • Culture and Teamwork
- 31. Airbnb Challenge Airbnb Mixpanel Office hours video
- 32. Assumption: We can convert travellers to hosts via this new feature
- 33. Test: Run a month-long A/B test to measure impact of the new feature We will know we were right if new feature generate host sign-ups and conversion to active hosts of 30%
- 34. So, lets define a …Small Experiment
- 35. LEAN ADVANTAGE Ltd. www.leanadvantage.co.uk Say hello at: hello@leanadvantage.co.uk State your Assumption Make it Minimal Connect it to Your Goal Have a Pass Condition Will bring us closer to <goal > To verify that we will <run this small test> We will know we were right if <Quantitative or qualitative pass criteria> We assume that <doing x> Think Creatively EXPERIMENT CARD
- 36. Learning is optimal when we have a 50/50 chance of succeeding. MISTAKES EXPERIMENTS PRACTICES LEARNING SUCCESS FAILURE
- 37. LEAN ADVANTAGE Ltd. www.leanadvantage.co.uk Say hello at: hello@leanadvantage.co.uk State your Assumption Make it Minimal Connect it to Your Goal Have a Pass Condition Share Progress Visually Document What We Have Learned Run one at a time Sequence based on risk/investment Run in a timebox Think Creatively 10 TIPS FOR GREAT MINIMUM VIABLE EXPERIMENTS
- 38. Run more experiments, faster, and cheaper. What you want to do as a company is maximize the number of experiments you can do per unit of time. - Jeff Bezos, Harvard Business Review