How An Experimenting Cadence Can Help You Kick Goals This Year
Can you improve your learning rhythm?
The concept of Lean Startup Methodology is nothing new in the world of business. It’s fast becoming common practice for startups and innovation teams in large companies alike. There are numerous books, videos, blogs and consultants all helping to teach the ‘lean’ entrepreneurial way in it’s various forms.
However, as with most things in life there are no guarantees that ‘lean’ equals success! What lean process performed properly will give you is learning. It’s what you do with the learning that becomes important.
Having a process that supports deliberate learning can help to build an evidence library. This library can then be used to make better, informed decisions, guide what you do next or what you should stop doing or potentially when to change direction completely.
Running experiments as an evidence driven process is a newer concept. It’s one that some people may be doing already, but possibly not as regularly as needed.
Speed is the new advantage, we either learn fast or fail.
Using Upperstory is the first step in putting some order into your lean process. Experimentation with a regular cadence and the right tool to guide you can help you achieve better results. However, developing new habits to drive your experimentation process isn’t always easy. We understand that for most, this takes time, patience and persistence to master.
Developing Your Experimenting Process in 3 Easy Steps
- Start with reviewing your experiment board.
- Do you have experiments that can now be validated?
- Prioritise experiment focus. Is it time to move an experiment out of the backlog and set it running? Or maybe pause an experiment and double down focus on less things?
- What are you learning from the status of your experiments overtime?
2. Now review the notes.
- Are there any notes that anyone on the team hasn’t added yet?
- What can you learn from what you’ve discovered?
- What can you learn from other team members notes?
- Does anything inform making changes to your experiments?
- Do you need to clone an experiment and run it again.
3. Finally take a look at your goals.
- Do you need to revise priority?
- Is everyone on the team aligned with the purpose of each goal that they need to work on?
- Do you need to add, remove or edit anything?
Incorporating these steps into a weekly team meeting agenda can help improve and maintain a learning culture in your business. Want to kick goals faster in 2018? Then what are you waiting for? Start by scheduling a recurring weekly time slot in your calendar and create a experiment cadence for your business.
If you don’t have an experiment manager yet, we’d love you to join us. Kick start your learning rhythm today.
