How Design Thinking, Lean, and Agile Work Together
Presented at Mind The Product, London 2019. Jonny Schneider gives the cliff notes on design thinking, lean, and agile, and explores how product teams can bring these mindsets together for better product development.
design process, and that sounds grand and all encompassing, but in reality they are just a suggestion for how to get started. —Carissa Carter @snowflyzone
an activity Empower people. Happier. Better outcomes. Outcomes over outputs Learning and adapting over analysis and prediction Lean optimises systems of work
an activity Empower people. Happier. Better outcomes. Outcomes over outputs Learning and adapting over analysis and prediction Lean optimises systems of work
comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan Agile optimises software delivery
comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan Agile optimises software delivery
We believe that Better informing travellers about Tax Free Refund steps and process ! Will result in an increase in repeated usage of the Global Blue app We will know we’ve succeed when IN PROTOTYPE REAL Number of ‘active/engaged’ users increases by Accuracy of submitted forms increases by PLAN Acquisition 6% 30%
prototype Pre-orders facade ads trend analysis demand study value stream mapping in-situ consumer study design probe qualitative interviews survey HIGH COST LOW COST HIGH CONFIDENCE $$$ LOW CONFIDENCE $ TEST A SOLUTION VALIDATE A PROBLEM GAUGE CUSTOMER DEMAND @jonnyschneider
Score (NPS) will increase Subject to external factors, hard to attribute to a specific initiative 6 customer features completed Measures output, not outcome Conversion from results page to product detail page increases by 3% month-on-month Good! Basket-size for returning customers increases on average from quarter-to-quarter Good! Average time-on-site per item purchase reduced by 6% quarter-to-quarter Good! GOAL→ Customers can easily find what they are looking for.
‣ Define your beliefs and assumptions ‣ Decide the most important thing to learn ‣ Design experiments that can deliver the right learning ‣ Be stubborn on the vision, but flexible on the details. ‣ Create the conditions for teams to learn their way forward. ‣ Focus on confidence, not certainty. 1 Continuous learning is the new competitive advantage.
at the intersections ‣ Try new ways of doing ‣ Adopt the things that work ‣ Learn from the things that don’t ‣ Can it be measured? ‣ Does it inform a decision? ‣ Do y’know when you’re done? ‣ Is it aligned to your goals? 3 Measure things that matter
Understanding Design Thinking, Lean, and Agile, Jonny Schneider bit.ly/goodreads-udtla ‣ The Problem with THE design process, Carissa Carter, bit.ly/carter-stop-process ‣ Escaping the Build Trap, Melissa Perri, bit.ly/goodreads-ETBT ‣ Testing business ideas (forthcoming), D. Bland and A. Osterwalder, http://bit.ly/testing-business-ideas [email protected] twitter @jonnyschneider Jonny Schneider Understanding Design Thinking, Lean, and Agile jonnyschneider.com/newsletter jonnyschneider.com/free-book