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Learn-Measure-Build Craft Useful Experiments By Running Backwards
Janice FraserMarch 2014
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Build measure
learn!
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Lean Startup is NOT
Cheap Startup
Fast Startup
Shortcut Startup
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An approach for building companies that are creating new products and services in situations of extreme uncertainty.
The approach advocates creating small products that test the entrepreneurʼs assumptions, and using customer feedback to evolve the product, thereby reducing waste.
Lean Startup is...
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1. List your assumptions.2. Understand your customers.3. Experiment efficiently.4. Adjust direction based on evidence.
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1. List your assumptions.2. Understand your customers.3. Experiment efficiently.4. Adjust direction based on evidence.
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Go backward to go forward.
Learn
Measure
Build
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Plot the difference
THINK
release
MAKErelease
MAKErelease
MAKE
RISK
= U
NVAL
IDAT
ED E
FFOR
T
TIME
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Lots of little wigglesRI
SK =
UNV
ALID
ATED
EFF
ORT
TIME
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RISK
= U
NVAL
IDAT
ED E
FFOR
T
TIME
Each wiggle is a learning cycle.
MAKE
releaseBUILD
LEARN
BUILD
MEASURE
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The Workshop
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{Activity}
Identify assumptions10 assumptions, 1 per sticky
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{Activity}
Divide into 2 pilesWill kill the company in the next 6 months
if weʼre wrong
Everything else
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{Activity}
Review & de-dupe
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{Activity}
Stack rank the urgents
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{Activity}
Pick the top one
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{Activity}
Design an experiment to learn if this is true.
we believe that ________________
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Briefly describe it.
State how you will know if the hypothesis is valid or invalid. This can be quantitative evidence or qualitative.
How much time/money/effort will it take?
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{Activity}
Discuss, then pick the experiment to run.
we believe that ________________
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____________ in 2 days.
Decide
we believe that ________________
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____________ in 2 weeks.
we believe that ________________
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____________ in 2 months.
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What’s the right size for the experiment?
2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months
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