GIVE AGILE, LEAN

A MISSION.

NOT to just go fast.

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Use Agile and Lean as they were designed -  to explore an unknown

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Give sprints the job of mitigating your killer risks.  

KNOW, TARGET AND MITIGATE YOUR TOP RISK, NOW

   Understand your project risk profile - across the 4 killer risk types.

Identify your top risk NOW.

Focus your Agile and Lean sprints on mitigating that top risk type.

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ONE AT A TIME 

MITIGATE THE TOP RISK

UNTIL IT'S NOT.

Reduce your top risk type enough for now, to the point that it is no longer the top risk.....

STOP. 

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Satisfice - 

Do NOT eliminate the risk. 

do NOT optimize 

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Max your impact by refocusing.

SEQUENCE - MOVE ACROSS 4 RISKS

Use the best tools - to mitigate your top target risk, until it is no longer the top risk. 

Then refocus on the "new" top risk

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At each sprint, adjust and pivot your vision - before you make the next big bet - taking on the next risk. 

USE A lEARNING MINDSET

Use these popular learning models as they were envisioned at the dawn of western civilization - targeting precise learning – for an aspect of your new offering - in a high-risk situation with lots of unknowns. 

Create a vision and the precise sporting hypothesis that span the biggest unknowns

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a sprint may not be code - the hypothesis may be captured in some other firm to get test feedback. 

KNOW YOUR RISKS

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To lead the market - always take some risk.  The most common new projects  have a combination of these following 4 Mutually Exclusive Completely Exhaustive (MECE) killer project execution risk types:

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Value

Usability

Performance 

Go-To-Market

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The profile of these risks changes with every project, depending on the growth strategy.  Choose your strategy, know your risks 

FOCUS ON THE TOP RISK - ONLY

Give Agile and Lean Sprints a mission.  

BUT

Only one mission, on ONE risk type, at a time.

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Identify your top risk (type) NOW - and focus your Agile and Lean sprints on mitigating -testing- only that risk type.

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The object to test your hypothesis may NOT involve code.  It may be simple value prop statements, design thinking or key technical issues, the test often does not involve code.

SATISFICE - AND  SEQUENCE ACROSS THE 4 RISKS 

DON'T WAST RESOURCES SUBOPTIMIZING

To maximize your impact- and project ROI - reduce and mitigate your top risk types, in sequence.  Reduce a risk (type) to the point it is no longer the top risk - then STOP.  Do NOT eliminate the risk.

Satisfice the insights. 

Get the greater return on your efforts by acting on your learning, adjusting and pivoting your vision,  And then refocusing on what is now the highest risk (type).  Also, use these tests, these market engagements to start customer development.