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Get Buy-In to Invest in Experimentation by Nate Weisz - The Lean Startup Conference 12/9/14

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One of the biggest challenges entrepreneurial employees face is getting support from your company leaders. Because when presented with proposals for user research or experimentation, corporate leaders will frequently question the value of those processes and shoot down the ideas. Nate Weisz, Director of Product Management at 3Pillar Global, shares techniques he's developed that pave the way to organically gaining support from executives.

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User testing = Insanely valuable

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Value totally missed

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Agile is universal

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Ritual: Sprint Demo

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Anti-pattern = useless demos

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Get real feedback

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Get the right people

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Prepare questions

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Example:Mechanics’ iPad app

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Give users a voice.

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UI improvements = happy Mechanics

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Users must drive!

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Example: pricing engine

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Users find the way

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Flow, model fixes = happy Accounting

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Leaders will believe

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Sophisticated User Testing

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Nate [email protected]

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