Pushing Through Failure (Quickly)
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The document discusses the importance of quickly experimenting and failing in innovation and product development, emphasizing the philosophy of 'fail fast' to learn from mistakes. Key figures like Victor Lombardi and Freeman Dyson highlight that many technological advances stem from iterative processes involving numerous failures. It advocates for lean development practices, smaller teams, and rapid prototyping to enhance creativity and efficiency in creating viable products.
Pushing Through Failure (Quickly)
- 5. “fail fast” is actually better framed as “experiment fast.” The most effective innovators succeed through experimentation. - Victor Lombardi http://www.uxbooth.com/articles/fail-fast-fail-often-an-interview-with-victor-lombardi/
- 8. “fail fast”
- 10. Freeman John Dyson FRS is an English American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solidstate physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering.
- 11. 1998 “Say something about failure in experiments or businesses or anything else. What's the value of failure?” http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.02/dyson.html?pg=7&topic=
- 12. “You can't possibly get a good technology going without an enormous number of failures. It's a universal rule. If you look at bicycles, there were thousands of weird models built and tried before they found the one that really worked. You could never design a bicycle theoretically. Even now, after we've been building them for 100 years, it's very difficult to understand just why a bicycle works - it's even difficult to formulate it as a mathematical problem. But just by trial and error, we found out how to do it, and the error was essential. The same is true of airplanes.”
- 13. “So you're saying just go ahead and try stuff and you'll sort out the right way.” “That's what nature did. And it's almost always true in technology. That's why computers never really took off until they built them small.”
- 14. “Why is small good?” “Because it's cheaper and faster, and you can make many more. Speed is the most important thing - to be able to try something out on a small scale quickly.”
- 15. ! “Fail fast.” “Yes. These big projects are guaranteed to fail because you never have time to fix everything.” 1998
- 16. Failing fast = learning with customers quickly
- 20. Systrom, Intuit founder Scott Cook, and Lean Startup author Eric Ries talked about the changes that have swept through product development in both big and small organizations. Many companies have moved from what's called "waterfall development" -- a method that relies on large engineering executing a carefully mapped-out plan -- to "lean" development, where creators move quickly to push out products and revise them on the fly. ! "We thought about what we could do to iterate more quickly," Systrom said of Burbn's pivot. "People loved posting pictures on Burbn" -- so that's where they took the venture, jettisoning other planned features. Burbn now lives on only as an abandoned Twitter feed. http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/13/technology/startups/instagram_burbn/
- 21. $
- 22. ready? to avoid a slow fail?
- 23. - problem - Can’t get started?
- 24. ! ! Ship often. Ship lousy stuff, but ship. Ship constantly. http://99u.com/tips/6249/Seth-Godin-The-Truth-About-Shipping
- 26. - problem - Find it hard to strip out what’s not valuable? Spend too much time planning? DOn’t talk with your customers?
- 28. “The timing of longrange plans is screwed up too. You have the most information when you’re doing something, not before you’ve done it. Yet when do you write a plan? Usually it’s before you’ve even begun. That’s the worst time to make a big decision.” http://37signals.com/rework
- 29. - problem - Large team
- 30. Keep your team small. Smaller than that. No team at all if you can help it. http://99u.com/tips/6249/Seth-Godin-The-Truth-About-Shipping
- 31. A throwback to their days with Jeff Bezos at Amazon, projects are assigned to "two pizza teams," groups of engineers small enough for them to be fed on two large pies. "We want the team to be flat and allow everyone to communicate with each other," Rajaraman says. http://www.fastcompany.com/1811934/walmartlabs-brings-two-pizza-team-startup-culture-walmart-empire
- 34. - problem - Try to jam too much into a product? Only launch x times a year? Looking for perfection?
- 37. “Great companies focus on their users and ship great products.” http://www.aaronklein.com/2012/02/why-facebook-is-worth-100-billion/
- 40. http://www.startupvitamins.com/products/startup-poster-done-is-better-than-perfect
- 41. “real artist ship” - steve jobs http://gloriamarie.com/stay-focused-and-keep-shipping
- 42. - problem - It’s going to cost too much to try that out. How do we know our customers will want this?
- 43. - Mike Krieger, Instagram’s founder The Wizard Of Oz Techniques For Social Prototyping – You don’t need to build everything at first. You can be the man behind the curtain. Krieger says him and Systrom tested an early version of a feature which would notify you when friends joined the service. Instead of building it out, they manually sent people notifications “like a human bot” saying ‘your friend has joined.’ It turned out not to be useful. “We wrote zero lines of Python, so we had zero lines to throw away.” http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/30/instagram-co-founder-mike-kriegers-8-principles-for-building-products-people-want/
- 49. It was an MVP (Minimal Viable Product). I skipped a bunch of features I figured I would implement later. First I wanted to see if people would use it and how they would use it. (...) Implementing user accounts (in Rails) would take me 2 weekends of work; registration, accounts, saving lists, removing lists, tracking, designing screens, edge cases etc. I didn’t want to spend the time if it turned out no one signed up so I ran an experiment. I dropped in a link on the top of the page that said “Sign up to save multiple lists.” and tracked the number of clicks it got with Mixpanel. http://www.leemunroe.com/lean-product-development-validate-feature-ideas/
- 51. What is the cheapest, fastest way to learn?
- 52. “I dropped over $40k when I could have spent $100” http://boondainc.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/i-dropped-over-40-grand-when-i-could-have-spent-100/
- 58. trying to determine what is… valuable Usable ! ! ! Enjoyable
- 63. Why did the associate damage his thumb? ! Because his thumb got caught in the conveyor. ! Why did his thumb get caught in the conveyor? ! Because he was chasing his bag, which was on a running conveyor. ! Why did he chase his bag? ! Because he placed his bag on the conveyor, but it then turned-on by surprise ! Why was his bag on the conveyor? ! Because he used the conveyor as a table ! So, the likely root cause of the associate’s damaged thumb is that he simply needed a table, there wasn’t one around, so he used a conveyor as a table. To eliminate further safety incidences, we need to provide tables at the appropriate stations or provide portable, light tables for the associates to use and also update and a greater focus on safety training. Also, look into preventative maintenance standard work. http://www.shmula.com/jeff-bezos-5-why-exercise-root-cause-analysis-cause-and-effect-ishikawa-lean-thinking-six-sigma/987/
- 65. Racing to the right ideas during development
- 68. ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas discovery Idea or ideas ideas backlog ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas ideas id id id id id id
- 69. The Discovery track is all about quickly generating validated product backlog items, and the Delivery track is all about generating releasable software. - marty cagan http://www.svproduct.com/dual-track-scrum/
- 73. prototype
- 75. test rough prototypes (usually built within a week or less)
- 77. 9:30am 10:30am 11:30am lab setting - 6 participants ! 1:30pm 2:30pm 3:30pm
- 81. clicktest / survey / Etc...
- 85. x x
- 86. the core team Core team makes decisions Done!
- 87. ...it is collaborative – the product manager, designer and lead engineer are working together, sideby-side, to create and validate backlog items. - marty cagan http://www.svproduct.com/dual-track-scrum/
- 88. failed usability failed to understand failed to find value ideas ideas id
- 89. http://www.startupvitamins.com/products/startup-poster-experiment-fail-learn-repeat
- 92. ea s id What’s your kill rate? ideas Ship that bad boy!
- 93. Did I mention this happens within a week? (or less)
- 94. Get moving!
- 95. LEARN LEAN
- 98. core product team product owner developers ux designer
- 99. #2 one ux designer per team
- 101. #4 Getting in front of customers weekly
- 102. #5 build/test/learn
- 103. in no time at all, you too can be a... lean, agile, prototyping, shipping, ux design master.