Organisations must celebrate failure to achieve success

Aidan Casey
Aidan CaseyHead of Engineering & Product Delivery at Teamwork.com
Organisations Must Celebrate Failure to
Achieve Success
Aidan Casey
Senior Manager - Johnson Controls Cork
@aidanjcasey
https://medium.com/@aidanjcasey
Organisations must celebrate failure to achieve success
BuildLearn
Measure
Build-Measure-Learn Loop
Eric Ries- “The Lean StartUp”
BuildLearn
Measure
Idea
BuildLearn
Measure
Idea
Hypotheses
Design Experiments
Test
Insight
?
25%
Carol Dweck “The Growth Mindset”
Growth Mindset
Failure is an opportunity to grow
I can learn to do new things
I like to try new things
Inspired by the success of others
Embraces challenges
Fixed Mindset
Failure is the limit of my abilities
I'm either good or bad at something
I stick to what I know
Threatened by the success of others
Gives up easily
Creating a Growth Mindset Team
establish trust
make it safe to fail
empower teams to solve problems
shift from feature factory
to laboratory
if experiments aren’t regularly
failing you aren’t moving fast enough
We believe that [building this feature][for these people]
will achieve [this outcome].
We'll know we are successful when [we see this measure].
Experimental Stories
Jeff Gothelf - “The Lean UX”
ICE SCORE (SUM OF SCORES) 3-30
IMPACT CONFIDENCE EASE
how big is the
potential impact
on the business?
how confident are
you that it will
work?
how difficult is it to
implement?
1 - 10 1 - 10 1 - 10
ACQUISITION
ACTIVATION
RETENTION
REVENUE
REFERRAL
Where do your customers come from?
What are they doing with the product?
How can you make money?
Are they coming back?
Are they sharing your product?
AARRR Metrics
Dave McClure - StartUp Metrics for Pirates
once an experiment is underway avoid
the temptation to change it in any
way
regularly brainstorm
new experiments
scrutinize every failure
for its learnings
In Summary
● failure is inevitable, embrace it
● shift from feature factory to laboratory
● growth mindset teams view failure as a starting point
● make it safe to fail
● add experimental stories to your backlog and prioritise them against delivery work
● consider ICE score & AARRR metrics
● scrutinize every failure for its learning
Organisations must celebrate failure to achieve success
“Only those who dare to fail
greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
- Robert F Kennedy
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