Writing a well-crafted business case may be key to securing funding, but it has little impact on whether your initiative succeeds or fails. A clear product strategy and knowing which initiatives to start, stop, or continue will serve you better in the long run, especially if your goal is creating a high performance organization.
Barry O'Reilly presents an alternative, evidence-based approach to making investments and managing and prioritizing your organization's projects and products. He'll show how using techniques such as customer discovery, hypothesis-driven development, and innovation accounting can minimize risk, inform your teams, and get the optimal return on your efforts.
Webinar available at: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3349
2. 2
PMO + Finance PMO
Iteration 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4Fuzzy front end The last mile
Centralized QA
Study
+ approval
Design
+ planning
Integration
+ QA
Development
Testing
+ showcase
Analysis
Release &
operation
TRADITIONAL BUSINESS PARADIGM
3. 2015 PRODUCT MANAGEMENT INSIGHTS
3
44% include user
feedback throughout
the development
process
66% of products take
or more 6 months
to launch
4. It’s typical for 50% of the total
product development time to be spent
on the fuzzy front end
- Don Reinersten
4Don Reinersten, The Principles Of Product Development Flow
18. Barry O’Reilly, How To Implement Hypothesis-Driven Development
http://barryoreilly.com/2013/10/21/how-to-implement-hypothesis-driven-development/
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20. We Believe That ________________________
Will Result In __________________________
We Will Know We Have Succeeded When
______________________________________
Reducing the prices hotel after 7pm
increased number of booking for tonight
conversion improves by 10% in 4 hours
21. We Believe That ________________________
Will Result In __________________________
We Will Know We Have Succeeded When
______________________________________
Reducing the prices hotel after 7pm
increased number of booking for tonight
conversion improves by 10% in 4 hours
Which Is Worth £100,000
32. WHY INNOVATION LOOKS COSTLY
▫︎Traditional management & financial accounting
measures are not designed for innovation
▫︎More effective, for exploiting well understood domains or
established business models and products
▫︎When exploring, accounting must not be ignored or
irrelevant -- simply needs to be interpreted differently.
▫︎Established practices provide little insight on if customer
or user will love or engage with a new product
▫︎return on investment
▫︎financial ratio analysis
▫︎cash flow analysis
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33. HOW TO CREATE A FRAMEWORK FOR DECISION MAKING
▫︎Innovation Accounting refers to the rigorous
process of defining, experimenting, measuring and
communicating the true progress of innovation for
new products, business models or initiatives
▫︎It creates accountability and transparency in an area
that can be ambiguous and opaque
▫︎It allows intrapreneurs to measure the impact of
their improvements and the financial decision-
makers to to measure the macro return of their
investments.
▫︎Turn leap of faith assumptions into a quantitative
financial model
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34. HOW DO WE SHOW THE CFO WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS?
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Stakeholder Measure Current Target Trend
CustomerCustomerCustomer
BusinessBusinessBusinessBusinessBusiness
% users that complete sales flow 30% 45%
% retention 20% 25%
Net Promoter Score 44 60
% visits to sign up for service 20% 25%
% conversion to paying customers 15% 20%
Customer acquisition costs £0.50 £0.25
Life time customer vale £12 £20
% attrition 30% 15%
35. ONE METRIC THAT MATTERS
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Stakeholder Measure Current Target Trend
CustomerCustomerCustomer
BusinessBusinessBusinessBusinessBusiness
% users that complete sales flow 30% 45%
% retention 20% 25%
Net Promoter Score 44 60
% visits to sign up for service 20% 25%
% conversion to paying customers 15% 20%
Customer acquisition costs £0.50 £0.25
Life time customer vale £12 £20
% attrition 30% 15%
37. GROWTH METICS AND OUTCOMES
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Element Purpose Relevant
Metrics
What we will
use?
Acquisition
Activation
Retention
Revenue
Referral
Generate attention of
product
Traffic, Mentions, Cost
per Click, Cost of
Acquisition
Turn drive-by visitors
into customers that
are enrolled
Sign ups, Completed
on-boarding process,
Used service once
Convince customer to
return repeatedly or
stickiness behaviour
Time since last visit,
daily/month active
users, churns
Business outcomes
dependent or
business model
Customer life value,
conversion rate,
shopping cart size
Viral and word of
mouth invitations to
other customers
Invites sent, viral
coefficient, viral cycle
time
38. BASED ON EVIDENCE UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE UPSIDE
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Understanding the upside of new customers, how often they
return, convert, share or recommend our product means we
can use the evidence of the engagement level to steer future
decisions and potential for return on investment
40. TELL THE STORY AS A NARRATIVE WITH A RUNWAY TO SUCCEED
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41. TELL THE STORY AS A NARRATIVE WITH A RUNWAY TO SUCCEED
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Aspirational Customer Journey
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42. TELL THE STORY AS A NARRATIVE WITH A RUNWAY TO SUCCEED
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Aspirational Customer Journey
Product Hypotheses
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43. TELL THE STORY AS A NARRATIVE WITH A RUNWAY TO SUCCEED
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Aspirational Customer Journey
Product Hypotheses
Design Experiments
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44. TELL THE STORY AS A NARRATIVE WITH A RUNWAY TO SUCCEED
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Aspirational Customer Journey
Product Hypotheses
Design Experiments
User Story Map
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45. TELL THE STORY AS A NARRATIVE WITH A RUNWAY TO SUCCEED
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Aspirational Customer Journey
Product Hypotheses
Design Experiments
User Story Map
Data/feedback
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