Key takeaways Innovation - Project Half Double · THE PINOCCHIO Creating a non-functional, lifeless, version of the product to initial need Example Jeff Hawkins famously carried around

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Project Half Double Morning Meeting #12

Key takeaways

Innovation

methods in

projects to

reduce the time

to impact

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Half Double morning meetings:Where the community come together!

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PURPOSE OF THE MORNING MEETING

1.Understand what Innovation Sprints are and how they can

be used to cut lead time and increase impact

2.Get insight in the latest real-life experiences with Impact Solution Design and explore how it can be

combined with Innovation Sprints

3.Network across the community

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INNOVATION SPRINTS & IMPACTSOLUTION DESIGN

Reduce time to impact

How to define the cupcake and go from cupcake to

wedding cake

InnovationIs there a cake?

Innovation Sprints

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WHY DO INNOVATION SPRINTS?

The Innovation Sprint is a process for learning about

big opportunities through creating, prototyping, and

testing ideas with reality.

It answers questions like:

• What should we build?

• Is there a market for our product?

• Will my product help people solve their problems?

• Do people understand our product?

• Will people find our product desirable?

The sprint is a shortcut to learning without

developing and executing.

Execute

Explore

Concept

Learn

Develop

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WHAT IS AN INNOVATION SPRINT?

An innovation sprint is a series of steps that

guide the process and ensure focus

1. Understand and crystalize one ambitious

opportunity to pursue

2. Diverge by sketching potential ideas

3. Decide on three competing ideas to explore

in depth

4. Build the prototype

5. Validate and learn from reality

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THE SPIRIT OF

SPRINTING WHAT IF WE COULD

HAVE IT ALL?

LET´S SPRINT Sprint is more than a process. It’s a

special spirit of togetherness, energy,

presence and acceleration with the

purpose of building and testing IDEAS by

prototyping - very fast.

SPEED

ENERGY

FOCUS

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DESIGN THINKING is build into the sprints

Feasibility

Technical lens

Viability

Commercial lens

Desirability

People lens

Should we

build it?

Can we build

it? 1 2

3Can we make

money of it?

Types of sprints

Should we build it?

Desirability

Can we build it?

Feasibility

Can we make money of it?

Viability

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PRINCIPLES

PRINCIPLES

1. We start with an aspiration and burning desire,

never a solution

2. We use sprint for testing business ideas, never

just a creative exercise

3. We make sprinting easy, fun and rewarding

4. We always work cross-functional when

sprinting

5. When we sprint, no facts exist inside the

building, only opinions

6. We get out of the building to test our ideas

7. We experiment to learn fast

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THE METHODS

The 5 stages

Understand Diverge Decide Prototype Validate

for each stage in an innovation sprint

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SPRINT AGENDA DAY 1

10:00

Sprint challenge

› The sponsor and/or sprint

navigator present the sprint

challenge to the team.

10:15

List sprint questions

› Brainstorm on insights you need to

pursue during the sprint.

› Get optimistic, pessimistic and curious.

› List questions to be answered during

the sprint.11:30

Set up 360° lightening talks

› Invite internal experts and

guests from outside to present

relevant insights; competitive

overview, user insights etc.

› Interview them and update the

sprint challenge and questions.

14:30

Pick user segment

› Choose your most important user

and one target moment.

› Decide on most important jobs-to-

be-done, pains and gains.

15:00

How might we?

› Summarise learnings and reframe

challenges as opportunities.

› Brainstorm on How might we?

questions and share them in the team.

› Organise notes and find patterns.

Label them as they emerge.

› Vote and choose the winners. You will

need 3-4 questions.

It all starts out by understanding the sprint challenge and the user in focus.


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SPRINT AGENDA DAY 2

Defining design principles

› What three words would

you like for users to

describe your product?

Set up lightening demos

› Look at great solutions from a

range of companies, incl. your

own orgnisation.

› Capture good ideas with a quick

drawing.

10:00 11:00 14:00

Sketch in four steps

› Everyone sketches in four steps:

‒ Notes

‒ Ideas

‒ Crazy 8’s

‒ Sketch

› Repeat if necessary.

You now move into the diverge phase. It is the sensational time when anything is

possible. It is about exploring all the possible solutions to this problem.


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SPRINT AGENDA DAY 3This is when critical thinking reenters the picture. Coming up with a bunch of

amazing ideas is only useful if you actually take the next step to build them.


Make a sticky decision

› Art museum

‒ Zen voting

‒ Speed critique

‒ Super vote

‒ Decide

Draw storyboards

› Draw a grid.

› Choose an opening scene.

› Fill out a step-by-step

storyboard for each idea.

10:00 11:30 15:30

Write first tweet

› Imagine it is time to launch your

product.

› What is the first announcing

tweet you will sent out?

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SPRINT AGENDA DAY 4Now it is time for you to transform ideas into prototypes and by doing so, you will

know earlier on what aspects of your ideas fail and which have potential.


List assumptions

› Determine what you need

to test to know if it is a

good idea?

› Find the three most

important issues to be

addressed for storyboard.

Prototyping

› Prototype assumptions for

your ideas.

› Pick the right tools for the job.

› Divide and conquer to do

three prototypes in one day.

10:00 10:30 15:00

Prepare for test

› Write an interview script.

› Buy gifts for test-persons.

› Run through your prototypes.

› Look for mistakes.

› Refine the test set up and the

prototypes if necessary.

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SPRINT AGENDA DAY 5Usually, this validation phase is the most important step. It allows you to test your prototypes

and (in)validate assumptions with actual users to learn what does and does not work.


List assumptions

› Go out and test in front of

users through five steps:

‒ Friendly welcome

‒ Context question

‒ Introduce prototype

‒ Task and nudging

‒ Debrief

Prototyping

› Make two lists: ‘Things that

work’ and ‘Problems to

solve’.

› Sketch up notes and place

them in the right row.

› Look for patterns.

› Wrap up your learnings

10:00 14:00 15:00

Prepare for test

› Prepare for presenting

› Present learnings to key

stakeholders.

› Ask them to review and

approve next step.

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PRETOTYPE VERSUS PROTOTYPEMethods for making ideas come to life

A prototype is something that makes your ideas “real enough to feel,” so you can get feedback

from users.

• Used for pretending before actual developing or

even prototyping an idea.

• It differs from a prototype by not being fully

functional and consumable.

• Pretoyping is not limited to a physical product. It can

also simulate a sale situation, e.g. by creating sales

material, packaging or menus before the product

exists.

Pretotype

• Used for testing how to build an idea right.

• Will typically be a physical version of the product.

• Can start out as simple model and can end up as

more advanced versions of the end-product using

technology, advanced know-how and lots of time

and money.

Prototype

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Pretotyping methods

Source: Alberto Savoia, PretotypeLabs.com

THE MECHANICAL TURK

Replacing complex processes with humans who perform a given

task in the background

Example

Faking an fully functioning app, where a human actually

performs the functions that are happening in the back-end

THE PINOCCHIO

Creating a non-functional, lifeless, version of the product to initial need

Example

Jeff Hawkins famously carried around a block of wood to get

an appreciation for what a PalmPilot might feel like

THE FAKE DOOR

The requirement of this method is to create a fake “entry” point for a

potential product (or new feature).

Example

On the Internet, a Fake Door can be implemented as a link, a

button on a web page or a web ad

THE PROVINCIAL

Provides core features of the intended final product, but limits its scope

(and scale) to support a small subset of the ultimate target market

Example

Testing a new digital tool for a very limited group of users –

Amazon Fresh in selected post codes in San Francisco

THE ONE-NIGHT STAND

Creating a complete service experience without the infrastructure

required by a permanent solution

Example

A pop-up or temporary service environment such as a

kiosk or booth at a given event

THE RE-LABEL

Put a different label on an existing product that looks like the product

you want to create

Example

Elon Musk bought a Lotus, replaced the engine with an electric

motor and drove the new car to a Google Campus asking for

$5K deposits to buy

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INNOVATION SPRINT FOLLOWED BY IMPACT SOLUTION DESIGN



wedding cake


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IMPACT SOLUTION DESIGN WITH ELEMENTS FROM INNOVATION

SPRINTS

Reduce time to impactHow to define the cupcake and go from

cupcake to wedding cake


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IMPACT SOLUTION DESIGN FOLLOWEDBY ONE OR MULTIPLE INNOVATION

SPRINTS




wedding cake

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Impact case

& Impact tracking

Use the impact case to drive Behavioral change and business

impact

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Design your project to deliver impact as soon as possible with end users close to the solution

Impact

Solution Design

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Creating impact in your project requires

commitment to three methods

Principle: Stakeholder satisfaction is the ultimate success criteria

Be in touch with the Pulse of your key stakeholders

on a monthly basis

Pulse

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Impact Solution Design:* 5 workshops set out to reduce time to impact

and enhanced early value creation in project execution

Design your project to deliver impact as soon as possible with end users close to the solution.

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• Meet and greet

• Objective setting

• Initial Impact case

• Planning the

process & book

workshops

• Impact solution design

in detail

• Impacts, main

deliverables and plan

• Risk assessment

benefits and plan

• Mini Pulse 2

• Impact case

• Overall impact solution

design

• Key stakeholder

overview

• Drive & book solution

team

• Mini Pulse 1

• Impact solution design

in depth & cost

overview

• Adjustments to plan &

insights

• Propose project

organisation

• Preparing the charter

• Mini Pulse 3

• Conclusion &

presentation to Project

owner and key

management

stakeholders

• Decisions and next step

• Collect learnings to

accelerate execution

• Mini Pulse 4

• Project owner

• Project leader

• Project owner

• Project leader

• Solution team (SME)

• User representation

• Project owner

• Project leader

• 1-2 key people

• Project owner

• Project leader


• User representation

• Project owner

• Project leader


• Key management

stakeholders

• PMO representative

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Impact solution

design 1

Concluding

start-up

Impact solution

design 2

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What’s cooking?

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conference in March

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Project Half Double in 2018

January 25th

Morning meeting #14, focus on your

project problems

February/March

Book launch

December 2017

Phase 2 report ready

March 2018

Morning Meeting for the Public

sector

March 2018Half Double

Result Conference

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Key takeaways Innovation - Project Half Double · THE PINOCCHIO Creating a non-functional, lifeless, version of the product to initial need Example Jeff Hawkins famously carried around