Sunny with a Chance of Innovation: A How-To for Product Managers and Designers,, Audrey An & Alexa Roman

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The document discusses how product managers and designers can innovate. It suggests questioning assumptions, releasing experiments, and nurturing an experiment library. It also recommends creating bridges by proving value through small, high-impact work and being responsive to others. The goal is to introduce new methods or solutions with measurable impact, like increasing a metric by 180%, and to continually foster innovation.

Design Leadership & Management

Sunny with a Chance of Innovation
#FOWD San Francisco 2015

Audrey An Alexa Roman
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Why are we talking about innovation?

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we think of it like weather

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fight corporate antibodies!

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introducing new methods or solutions into
an established space with a measurable impact.

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How can product managers and
designers innovate?

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goals and constraints

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product managers Designers

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1) Question, release, repeat
2) Nurture an experiment library
3) Create bridges and advocates

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Question, release, repeat

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Maintenance Story
Experiment Story
Experiment Metrics Chore
Production Enhancement

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Experiment Code Analytics WinnersUsers
Production Code
Optimizely

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nurture an experiment library

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What we’ve learned
what we want to learn
How we’ll learn it

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High Impact
High Effort
Low Impact
Low Effort

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Create bridges and advocates

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1) prove your weight in gold
2) micro work, macro impact
3) answer the phone

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prove your weight in gold

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micro work, macro impact

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answer the phone

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before after
5% 14%

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INCREASE 180%

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back to the weather

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go forth and create a core team

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