This document outlines 5 lean tactics for organizations: 1) Include stakeholders early and often, 2) Talk to users, 3) Kill ego before it kills creativity, 4) Build a cross-functional team, and 5) Focus on outcomes rather than deliverables. It discusses each tactic in more detail with examples from the author's experience working in agencies and with clients. Background information is provided on the author's role helping medical device companies engage with doctors. Throughout, the importance of learning and continuous improvement is emphasized.
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Back to those ivas
• 4-5lbs
• 2-3 hr battery
• Tracks what you do
• Less than 1lbs
• Infinite battery
• 100% customizable
P.I.T.A.
Simple &
met the needs
Sales Rep
Ivas Suck!
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Fight the Culture of fear
• Determine risk tolerance w/Management
• Use data to back up your claims
• Be open to everyone’s ideas
Me vs. them
Us
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Silos – the death ofcommunication
Marketing Sales R & D
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• Walls – heavy documentation
• The other departments are lazy
• Escalate to bosses
• Pulls in other bosses
• Talks to their teams
• Escalate again
• Client involved – add more layers
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Team up,Talk, win
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• Find like-minded individuals
from various disciplines
• Take on a small project to start
– prove the value
• Kick off with a Workshop
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Short-sighted view on profitability
Salary employee
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+ bill the client hourly
Mad money
=
needs not met
Frustrated clients
Uninspired employees
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Back to those ivas
• 4-5lbs
• 2-3 hr battery
• Tracks what you do
• Less than 1lbs
• Infinite battery
• 100% customizable
P.I.T.A
Simple &
met the needs
Sales Rep
Ivas Suck!
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• Remember those upset reps?
• Client – too many complaints
• Shut down this million dollar
program (till iPads)
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Reward learning and problem solving
Lean thinking pushes us:
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• to seek the business outcomes
• then question whether these features will get us there
• have conversations with stakeholders around what
metric you’re trying to move
– Jeff Gothelf
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Reward learning and problem solving
Define reachable metrics
with stakeholders
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• Increase global sales
• Gain x number of new signups
through the online campaign
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5 lean tactics
01 Include Stakeholders Early
02 Talk to the Users
03 Kill Ego Before it Kills Creativity
05 Outcomes Not Deliverables
04 Build a Bad-Ass Cross-Functional Team
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5 lean tactics
01 Include Stakeholders Early
02 Talk to the Users
03 Kill Ego Before it Kills Creativity
05 Outcomes Not Deliverables
04 Build a Bad-Ass Cross-Functional Team
Keep
learning
& fight the good fight
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References & Tools
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• Leisa Reichelt: Client/Agency Engagement is F*cked, Waterfall UX Design is a Symptom
• Ross Popoff-Walker: Lean UX at Digital Design Agencies
• Jeff Gothelf:
• Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience
• 3 Challenges Implementing Lean UX in the Enterprise
• Laurence McCahill: 10 things I’ve learnt about lean startup
• Basecamp: Best email aggregation & accountability tool
• Trello*: Best team Todo lists
• Slack*: Will kill internal emails & chats
*These are referral links from my account. For Slack, if you become a paid user, we’ll both receive $100 in credit.
Notes de l'éditeur
4 years ago in mid-December
I walked out of my last advertising agency job
just one week before bonus
Needed to get out
Leave $ on the table
Escape a few days earlier
In the moment it “I just feels right”
Nuts or not?
5 case studies from my experience
I needed Lean
Successful products
happier
That go with 5 Lean tactics you can try at your org
Intro to the tactics,
will provide sources for more info
Examples are from my Agency life
But the symptoms and solutions are universal
I’ll show you 5 tactics that you can use to try instill some of these Lean principles into your organization. This is a skimming of these tactics, but I will provide sources you can get much more info for each.
I worked in a Pharmaceutical advertising agency
“The Interactive Creative Group”
senior art director
unofficial guerrilla UX designer & researcher
A lot of the tactics today are under-the-radar type
print sales brochures and turning them into “engaging interactive experiences”
Interactive Visual Aids (IVAs)
Reps > doctors
Doctors> patients
What design choices were right?
Need software development - another 3-4 layers deep.
Next: So what can be done about this? Workshops
Everyone has good ideas
not just the creative team
Lock you all in a room
3 unique customer profiles
1 direct users
1 indirect user
Get rich
At least some at the top of the chain do
IVAs had a “cool factor” to them
Didn’t fill a need, paper was better
Reps hated using them
Next: Get out of the building
How do you do this?
Might have to be guerrilla
Creative team = everyone working on the product
Could not get approval for research
Talked to any Dr.s I could
Wanted context & validation to my designs
Debates: feature vs. feature
Can get significant value from 3-5 users
If I can’t get approval to travel – will simply call users
no really - big green hard hat had in his office (the brand we were working on)
Part of brand launch
Creating tons of video content
Creative review session
(we made sure to all wear unique and bright colors)
34 videos
Don’t trap content there
I gave less fucks
Told him: these videos are dumb and get in the way
Had 4 managers tell me that’s unacceptable
Kill ego by fighting the culture of fear
Sound corny?
My value at the company is based
Owning
Showing off my ideas
Don’t say “I think it should be…”
Say “The data shows that…”
Rank doesn’t matter, ideas do
Next Tactic: A-Team
We’ve all been there –
Walls
Emails
Documentation
The other departments are lazy and/or morons
Bring it up to her boss
Pulls in other bosses
Talks to their teams
Escalate again
Client involved – add more layers
Pharma – regulatory & FDA
Next: Pick your team
Choose any flavor that fits you
Fortunate to have found my team: Gravity Ward
Cross-functional
Several of which were my guerrilla team in the agency world
Find like-minded individuals from various disciplines
Take on a small project to start – prove the value
Kick off with a Workshop
Communicate w/Better tools
Cheap and don’t need approvals
Basecamp: Best email aggregation & accountability tool
Trello: Best team Todo lists
Slack: Will kill internal emails & chats
Choke on my spit when I heard this
Saturday & Sunday – gives me PTSD
Mad Money sure
Greatly risk these happening
Remember those upset reps?
Client – too many complaints
Shut down this million dollar program (till iPads)