Innovation is a Habit: Creating an

amazing engineering

culture.

By Ed KraayYahoo!

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"There's no doubt the work went faster because of the net," Lefty

Underkoffler.

Make it safe to fail.

“If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough”

Philip Ljubicich

De-stigmatize mistakeshttp://tomtunguz.com/a-dog-and-a-monkey/

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You will make your team/company

one that developers want to

be at.

Adapted from Fog Creek http://www.fogcreek.com/about/From article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/DevelopmentAbstraction.html

Best Working Conditions

Best Programmers

Best Software

Profit

1. Open2. Don’t waste my

time3. A Problem Worth

Solving4. Learn Faster

5. Close

1. A problem worth solving

2. See people using my product.3. Don’t waste my

time

Management’s job:Create the

conditions to enable that.

“Making undo really easy makes for an awesome

engineering culture.” Brett

Taylor, former CTO Facebook

Automate Commit to Production

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"If I knew it would take months for software to

go from fingers to production, I would have become an accountant." - Stas Zvinyatskovsky,

Architect at Yahoo!

“Go as fast as you can. You need a seatbelt.

Tests are your seatbelt.” Yukihiro “Matz”

Matsumoto

1. Open2. Don’t Waste my time3. A problem worth

solving4. Learn Faster

5. Close

Empathy

Get out of the building

Talk to customers

Try Innovation Games, Empathy

Interviews

https://novoed.com/designthinking

Empathy Map

1. Open2. Don’t Waste my time

3. A problem worth solving

4. Learn Faster5. Close

How not to launch a startup

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New store design launch: no data or

testing.

Healthcare.gov

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The "most dangerous" of all failure points for a software development

project is the "big bang" release, the approach the government took by releasing the ACA site on Oct. 1

release, said Jim Johnson.

http://bit.ly/17RGION

From 2003 - 2011 http://bit.ly/17RGION

Waterfall

“We are not prophets”

Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto

“Doing Agile”

Adapted from http://bit.ly/17RHbAl

Still handoffs (Wasteful)

Optimize the whole

Lean Startup

Lean StartupBuild, Measure,

Learn

There is much more…

Agile methods focus mainly on building

Learn/Measure Faster

Pass/Fail testsBucket TestsFake DoorsEmpathy

InterviewsNet Promoter

Score

Create a culture of entrepreneurs, not

a culture of politicians

Leadership Shift“We have to move

decisions from politics and powerpoint to instead enable decisions to be made by the best ideas that can be validated in the market.” Scott Cook

Lean Startup Conference 2012http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=B0HyuX9ZLus

Leadership ShiftFrom: “What is your

solution and what analysis lead you to that solution?”

to “What’s the fastest way to get an experiment to test that idea.” - Scott Cook

Lean Startup Conference 2012http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=B0HyuX9ZLus

Business Model Canvas provides a simple way of exposing our assumptions so they can be tested.

1. Open2. Don’t Waste my time3. Automate Commit to

Production4. Learn Faster

5. Close

Take the Lean Launchpad Udacity

class (free) with your team.

https://www.udacity.com/course/ep245

You learn how to test every aspect of your business model cheaply.

“Speed as the strategy.”

Mike Cassidy

Resources• Design Thinking Action Lab:

https://novoed.com/designthinking

• Udacity Lean Startup Class: https://www.udacity.com/course/ep245

• Pretotyping: http://www.pretotyping.org/video-of-the-pretotyping-manifesto

• How spotify builds productshttps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1018963/Articles/HowSpotifyBuildsProducts.pdf

• Speed as the strategyhttp://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/best-strategy-is-speed-startup2startup-may-2008