Post on 28-Jan-2015
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Emmanuel Levi-Valensi
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Startup guy @ Microsoft France
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Blaise Vignon
• Consultancy & agile web and mobile development
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Failure and agility
A sad statistic
Source : Illusions of EntrepreneurshipScott Shane (US Data, all industries)
Proportion of New Businesses Founded in 1992 Still Alive By Year. Most startup failures are
due to running out of money before having the right product
There can be other causes (WCR, founder shoutfest, litigation)
But not in the context of this talk
The following slides were built with software engineering in mindSoftware engineering is• Highly creative• Very interdependant on coworkers• Loosely coupled
In short, it is like many other startup functions• Marketing• PR/Communication• Business Development• Product design
The learning from Software Engineering have been applied to broader fields
The longer the project, the likelier the failure
….because it is the less clear what success looks like …
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Project size (measured in function points, yes, we know…)
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…but do we know why projects should be big?
Only 20% of features are used
often
… and designing the wrong thing is easy…
(we do not always know what the customer will look like)
Project (and startup) management can be like this
Inefficient way of working
The « break-down and specialize » management method leads to many wastes:
Stock of useless functionalities, documentation
High cost of coordination and communication
Agility proposes a different management paradigm…
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
Source: http://agilemanifesto.org/
Important Agile Principles
Customer satisfaction is the main goal
Intrinsic quality
Measure to objectivize
Collective commitment
Agility proposes a different management paradigm…
Agile way of delivering The Scrum process
Fail fast, fail early
• As we are delivering fast, we can harvest positive and negative feedbacks
• As we accept changes, we can take into account these feedbacks and adapt our plans
• Feedback is more precious than perfection
Tips to accelerate failure (or success)
• Instead of building a full product or service, prototype it
• There are several prototype types:
Mechanical turk Pinocchio The Provincial The Minimal Viable Product
Agile Marketing
Validate market hypothesis
Imagine and validate the MVP Generate demand
Accelerate!
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