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Some teams think they can A/B test their way to a great product. It can become a socially acceptable mechanism to avoid having opinions and reduce friction. St

Some teams think they can A/B test their way to a great product. It can become a socially acceptable mechanism to avoid having opinions and reduce friction. Steve Blank's quote about validating assumptions: "Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. It was not built as a focus group for consensus for those without deep convictions" Is the Lean Startup Dead? (2018) https://medium.com/@sgblank/is-the-lean-startup-dead-71e0517294a0 https://medium.com/@sgblank/is-the-lean-startup-dead-71e0517... Discussed on HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17917479 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17917479

eddythompson80 2y ago
Any sort of political/PR fallout in any organization can be greatly limited or eliminated if you just explain a change as an "experiment" rather than something deliberate. "We were just running an experiment; we do lots of those. We'll stop that particular experiment. No harm no foul" is much more palatable than "We thought we'd make that change. We will revert it. Sorry about that". With the former people think: "Those guys are always experimenting with new stuff. With experimentations comes hiccups, but experimentation is generally good" With the later; now people would wanna know more about your decision-making process. How and why that decision was made. What were the underlying reasons? What was your end goal with such a change? Do you actually have a plan or are you just stumbling in the dark?
samstave 2y ago
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- samstave 2y ago
  (Sorry, forgot to mention: trillions in tons of plastic E_waste.exe __ obsolete phone cases == F IVE