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About Myself  & Spark59Founded 2 tech startups,worked with many others

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Innovation in anAgile Environment

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Waterfall

Release!

Risk

Time

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Are we making our

product

better or worse?

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Are we efficient?vs

Are we effective?

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The Definition of Done

should include testing

customer behaviour

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Validated Learning

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IDEAS

PRODUCTDATA

MEASURE

BUILDLEARN

Experiment

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“State, before you do the work,this is what I believe will happen,

and when you do the the worksee whether it happens or not.”

- Jabe Bloom

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Hypotheses

instead of 

Requirements

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Requirement:

Users can create 3D avatars.

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We believe that users will create a 3Davatar and spend more time on other

users profiles.

Hypothesis:

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50% of newly signed up users will create a 3D avatar,

Avg time spent on user profiles will go from 30s to 1min+

Falsifiable Hypothesis:

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Be closer to reality,

and avoid

bias & comfort zones

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User Stories != Experiments

Missing the “Measure” Stage

No Way to Validate the Learning

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Deploy != Launchif $rollout.active?(:chat, current_user)  ...

else  ...end

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Deploy Every Commit

Release To A Small Set of CustomersLaunch The New Feature When Ready

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Experiments need to be

shown to actual customers

Not just to your team!

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Lean Stack:Experiment Reports

T o o l s  &  T a c t i c s 

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Background

EXPERIMENT REPORT   Author:Title:   Created:

Experiment Scope

Minimum Build Plan

Lean Stack by Spark59.com

Falsifiable Hypothesis

Validated Learning

Results

Next Action

What are you trying to learn or achieve?

List the build plan step by step to get your measurement and experiment.

How many and/or how long will the experiment last?

[DATE][NAME][TITLE]

Your list of statements on the expected outcome of the experiment.

Use this format:[Specific Repeatable Action] will [Expected Measurable Outcome]

Enter the data.

Summarize your learning from the experiment.

VALIDATED or INVALIDATED

What!s the next experiment?

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Background

EXPERIMENT REPORT   Author:Title:   Created:

Experiment Scope

Minimum Build Plan

Lean Stack by Spark59.com

Falsifiable Hypothesis

Validated Learning

Results

Next Action

What are you trying to learn or achieve?

List the build plan step by step to get your measurement and experiment.

How many and/or how long will the experiment last?

[DATE][NAME][TITLE]

Your list of statements on the expected outcome of the experiment.

Use this format:[Specific Repeatable Action] will [Expected Measurable Outcome]

Enter the data.

Summarize your learning from the experiment.

VALIDATED or INVALIDATED

What!s the next experiment?

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Give Context.Why is this relevant?

Background

What are you trying to learn or achieve?

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Quantify Your Goals

Falsifiable Hypothesis

Your list of statements on the expected outcome ofthe experiment.

Use this format:[Specific Repeatable Action] will[Expected Measurable Outcome]

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Set Scope & Timebox

Experiment Scope

How long will the experiment last?

Minimum Build Plan

List the build plan step by step to get yourmeasurement and experiment.

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1. Context - Why is this relevant?

2. Quantify Your Goals3. Set Scope & Timebox

Planning an Experiment

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Test your

Value and your Growth 

Hypothesis first

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Validated Learning:

Define Hypothesis,Build & Launch Experiment,

Learn from the Results

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Concepts for making this work:1. Product Ownership

2. Shared Understanding

3. Accountability4. Scoping & Timeboxing

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Cross-Functional

Team

Product

Owner

Customers

Centralized Product Ownership

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Cross-Functional

Team

Business

Stakeholder

Customers

Distributed Product Ownership

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Product Ownership is about 

Defining Customer Value,not Aesthetics

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Business Experiments

instead of (just)Development Tasks

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Experiments are

Owned ByA Team Member

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Draws ExpertResources as needed

(e.g. through pairing)

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1. Product Ownership

2. Shared Understanding3. Accountability

4. Scoping & Timeboxing

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Why?are we doing

what we’re doing

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Team needs to

Understand The Impact

of their work

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“Shared understanding is aboutgetting everyone to walk in the

other person’s shoes a little.”Bill Scott - UX at Netflix, PayPal

This includes the business owner’s shoes!

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Are we making progresstowards our business goal?

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Company-WideMetrics Dashboard

T o o l s  &  T a c t i c s 

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Actionable

AccessibleAuditable

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ActionableTie specific repeatable actions toobserved results.

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AccessibleLet everyone in the companysee and understand whats going on.

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AuditableTie the numbers back to actualcustomers, so you can verify the metricand believe in it.

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Unit Economics

instead of Gross Revenue

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ACQUISITION

ACTIVATION

RETENTION

REVENUE

REFERRAL

Value MetricsHow do users find you?

Do users have a great first experience?

Do users come back?

How do you make money?

Do users tell others?

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ACQUISITION

ACTIVATION

RETENTION

REVENUE

REFERRAL

How do users find you?

Do users have a great first experience?

Do users come back?

How do you make money?

Do users tell others?

Growth Metrics

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Cross-FunctionalPairing

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Weekly Strategy MeetingPart 1: Ideation

T o o l s  &  T a c t i c s 

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Avoid Brainstorming.

It causesPremature Convergence

Around One Idea.

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http://www.lostgarden.com/2010/08/visualizing-creative-process.html

By Daniel Cook

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Design Studioby Will Evans

@semanticwill

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Observe & ExplainTo The Group

IdeateAlone

DiscussIn the Group

Sketch &

Write down!

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Review ExperimentsOnly In Weekly Meeting

Focus On Efficiency

In Daily Stand-ups

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1. Product Ownership

2. Shared Understanding

3. Accountability

4. Scoping & Timeboxing

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Lean Stack:Validated Learning Board

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IDEAS

PRODUCTDATA

MEASURE

BUILDLEARN

Build Measure Learn

!

Kan-ban Board

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Build Measure Learn! 

!

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1 experimentper team member

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Separate Task Board

for tracking the details

Swimlane for each Experiment

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Weekly Strategy MeetingPart 2: Review

T o o l s  &  T a c t i c s 

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Review Experiment Results

Challenge the InterpretationKill / Restart overdue Experiments

EXPERIMENT REPORT   Author:Title:   Created: [DATE][NAME][TITLE]

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Background

Experiment Scope

Minimum Build Plan

Lean Stack by Spark59.com

Falsifiable Hypothesis

Validated Learning

Results

Next Action

What are you trying to learn or achieve?

List the build plan step by step to get your measurement and experiment.

How many and/or how long will the experiment last?

Your list of statements on the expected outcome of the experiment.

Use this format:[Specific Repeatable Action] will [Expected Measurable Outcome]

Enter the data.

Summarize your learning from the experiment.

VALIDATED or INVALIDATED

What!s the next experiment?

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Actual data you Measured,based on your Hypothesis.

Results

Enter the data.

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ValidatedInvalidatedInconclusive

Validated Learning

Summarize your learning from the experiment.

+ Why?

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What will you do nextbased on your learning?

Next Action

What!s the next experiment?

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!Failure is good.

Validated Learning is ourMeasurement of Progress.

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Timeboxing

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Build Measure Learn! 

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Experiment Scope

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Build Measure Learn! 

!

Experiment Scope

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Startups don’t starve,

they drown.

Open-ended learning is dangerous,always timebox.

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Interviews/Prototypes: 1-2 WeeksQualitative Tests:  1 Month

Quantitative Tests:  2-3 Months

Recommended Timeboxes:

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Inside the Building Comfort Zone

Customer Interview

(Paper) Prototype

MVP

“The Perfect Product”

Get-out-of-the-Building Reality

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Customer Interview

(Paper) Prototype

MVP

“The Perfect Product”

Get out of the Building Reality

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Justify the Cost of MVPswith Proof 

U d t d P bl

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Understand Problem:

Explorative Customer Interviews

Define Solution:

User Testing With Prototypes

Validate Qualitatively:Release MVP and hand-collect feedback 

10s to 100s of customers

Verify Quantitatively:

Partial Rollout or Split Test and measure improvement

100s to 10,000s of customers

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Experiment Reports

Company-wide Dashboard

Validated Learning BoardWeekly Strategy Meeting

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Thanks!

leanstack.com

lukas@spark59.com