Lean Startup and Intrapreneurial Testing

, Lead Quality Engineer at F-Secure Corporation

Anthony Caputi , executive search for growth-stage businesses at Ezekiel Global Executive Search
Very interesting post! My question is how do you find successful intrapreneurs? Specifically product marketers who have grown to GMs (owning the P&L not just the sales target), who took an idea and developed go-to-market strategies and product roadmaps. I am looking for people who have done this quickly (18 months or less) while achieving a strong market acceptance and have seen results – for instance new lines of business starting at less than $5M growing to $50M
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Experiments are tests to learn about your assumptions. In this talk, we look into lessons of a tester helping with relevant experiments in intrapreneurial setting: a startup environment within an established company.

We learn from discussions that take place allowing a thinking tester as far left as possible, before implementation: testing the user experience for features we need, testing the need of features to identify if what is asked for is worth building, and testing the elements of the business model to steer towards customer satisfaction and financial success.

This talk provides thinking tools and ideas for a tester to contribute in the opportunity space, before entering the implementation pipeline. Unleash the entrepreneurial talent of testers to boost innovation!

Empirical evidence vs. speculation
Testing feeding development before development again feeding testing

Story: implementing the basic equipment list – no one outside wants it. Implementing the equipment acceptance process – no one wants it even internally and now implementing concept.

Unhelpful attitudes in development team is to stop this or say you needed to know in advance.

Example: if we knew this when we implemented… But we did not. And while we focused on doing what we did, we got that out and it brings value already.

hindsight and forward thinking attitude, let yourself learn when the software speaks to you, don’t punish yourself for not being perfect yesterday, treat every day as a learning opportunity (games, save point and do-over)

Agile is about lowering the cost of change that is inevitable anyway.

SOMETIMES YOUR BUSINESS DOES NOT KNOW IT.

Example: if we knew this when we implemented… But we did not. And while we focused on doing what we did, we got that out and it brings value already.

hindsight and forward thinking attitude, let yourself learn when the software speaks to you, don’t punish yourself for not being perfect yesterday, treat every day as a learning opportunity (games, save point and do-over)

Agile is about lowering the cost of change that is inevitable anyway.

Gojko’s SBE workshop: ”It’s about domain modeling – making business terms match the technical implementation”

Unit testing focuses on what we know should exist.

“there’s a process of knowing” – learning

Does not give as regression; serendipity (safety against things happening randomly) / unwanted serendipity events.

This is what it is and what it could be. There’s a direction to it, not just statement of what it is.
Coaching is not just feedback, it’s pointing them to the right way.

Safety.

EXPERIENCE (the verb) rather than facts ; emotions over facts. REACTIONS.

HISTORY, Lessons learned, checklists. Modeling.

UNDERSTANDING – where you start (knowing the thing (code & environment), knowing the user, knowing the problems, knowing the developers (how to help them and what they do so that you can efficiently test), knowing the hackers (weird use cases outside common ‘have you tried reading it upside down’) , knowing all stakeholders, knowing the business priorities)

Uncovering things I cannot know, giving the application a change to reveal information for me.

This allows you to know things.

Lean Startup and Intrapreneurial Testing

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Lean Startup and Intrapreneurial Testing