8. The Goal
Photo by Júnior Ferreira on Unsplash
As your guest speaker,
I want to give you an idea of
1. What experimentation really means
2. Why it is important
3. How to run a successful one
So that you see the real value and hopefully you will be
motivated to learn more about experimentation and
apply it to your way of thinking and doing.
9. What I am going to cover…
Demystifying
Experimentation
1
Running
Experiments
Experimentation
Culture
2 3
The What
The Why
The Framework
Identifying Problems
Create Hypothesis
Design
Run
Learn
The Big Picture
The When
The Culture
8 Pitfalls
12. Should we call it an idea yet?
“Instead of saying 'I have an idea,'
what if you said 'I have a new
hypothesis, let's go test it, see if it's
valid, ask how quickly can we
validate it.' And if it's not valid,
move on to the next one."
Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO
13. What’s wrong with the idea?
Idea = People need a mobile application to help them find the best
financial product that’s suitable to their needs and situation.
Who do we mean by ‘People’?1
Why do we think a mobile application should be the solution?2
What is the actual problem we are trying to solve here?3
How are we so sure? Is there any evidence?4
15. Moving from the Idea to an Assumption
Idea = People need a mobile application to help them find the best
financial product that’s suitable to their needs and situation.
Assumption = We assume there is a population of people that would want to find a
suitable mortgage product on the move and receive advice whenever they need it.
We know that this need to be tested.1
We assume the problem is not for everyone.2
We are now shifting from a Solution to the actual Problems.3
Multiple hypothesis can be derived from this assumption.4
16. Assumption and Hypothesis
An Assumption can be broken down to multiple specific and measurable
Hypothesis that can be tested.
17. The Hypothesis
We believe that Mortgage Brokers can have access to a mortgage advisor on the move
and 24/7 to advise them with the best mortgage products for their clients.
To verify that we will implement a virtual mortgage assistant in our mobile banking
app that can analyse financial status of a potential client and advise the best option
And measure the number of times that the virtual mortgage assistant could offer the
right product and also the number of calls made to our advisors during our
experiment
We are right if our VA could advise a right product by 80% and the number of calls
reduced by 30%
18. Definitions
Idea = A general Assumption with no or not enough Evidence
Assumption = An un-testable statement consists of multiple Hypothesis with no
clear benchmark or target Metrics
Hypothesis = A Specific, Measurable and Testable statement derived from the
assumption with current benchmark and the target metrics we want to improve (reduce
or increase).
19. Experimentation: The What
A Problem-solving Framework that gives us all the necessary Tools in
order to test and validate our Hypothesis
Problem-solving: The focus is on finding the right problems1
Framework: It’s a process and not a one step task2
Tools: It gives us all the different assets we need to find the
problems and then validate our hypothesis.
3
20. Experimentation: The Why
Establishing data-driven culture and making decisions based on data and insight
and eliminating bias
1
Identifying the right solution that adds more value than existing mechanisms2
Measuring the usability and impact on users3
De-risking future investment by identifying risk and measuring practicality4
Finding the right problem and building the right solution
23. 2 More things to say …
Demystifying
Experimentation
1
Running
Experiments
Experimentation
Culture
2 3
The What
The Why
The Framework
Identifying Problems
Create Hypothesis
Design
Run
Learn
The Big Picture
The When
The Culture
8 Pitfalls
25. Finding the Right Problem(s) to Solve
At it’s core, the job of Entrepreneurs and Product People is to
Live, Breathe and Stay with a Problem until it’s not a problem any more!
Find the right problem
Test till you hit the right solution
Build the right product, right
Build an organisation
Build an industry
26. Start with the ‘Who’
Who is facing
the problem?
Who?
What do they do?
Jobs to be done
Why?
What are they trying
to achieve?
Pains
What pains are
They facing?
27. Sources of Information
Go out and speak to the customers1
Run effective workshop2
Conduct surveys3
Speak to your support team4
Look at complaints5
Get input from Marketing and Sales6
Use existing data7
Check previous experiments8
(user groups, external reports, competitors, blogs …)
28. Our Customer
Mortgage Brokers
Married and have a family
Single under 30
Assumption = We assume there is a population of people that would want to find a
suitable mortgage product on the move and receive advice whenever they need it.
29. Customer Segments: Build up Empathy with them
The Empathy Map
Think & Feel?
Hear? See?
Say?
What matters to them?
What worries them?
How are they influenced by
hearing others say?
What are they saying?
What do we think they are saying?
What’s their surrounding and
Environment?
30. The Characteristics of our Customer
The Empathy Map
Think & Feel?
Hear? See?
Say?
It’s important to find a right mortgage for
their clients and build up trust and credit
Their colleagues say our advisors
are not always helpful
It’s hard to get hold of an advisor in the bank
and each advisor might advise differently
Lots of information on
the bank website
Mortgage Broker
31. Build Customer Profile & Prioritise
Customer Jobs Gains Pains
+
Insignificant
-
Important
+
Nice to have
-
Essential
+
Moderate
-
Extreme
32. Broker’s Profile
Customer Jobs Gains Pains
+
Insignificant
-
Important
+
Nice to have
-
Essential
+
Moderate
-
Extreme
Learn about
different products
Find a suitable mortgage
for their client
Know how to submit
an application
High chance of mortgage
approval
Build up knowledge so can
advise other clients
Submit application
with no hassle
Picking a wrong product for
client
information on the
website is not consistent
A lot of back and forth with
client and the bank
33. Build Value Map & Prioritise
Product/Service Gains Creator Pain Relievers
+
Insignificant
-
Important
+
Nice to have
-
Essential
+
Moderate
-
Extreme
34. Value Proposition
+
Insignificant
-
Important
+
Nice to have
-
Essential
+
Moderate
-
Extreme
Improve information
architecture of the
website
Virtual Mortgage
Assistant
Can advise brokers with
the right product
Easier to find
information
Available on the move
and 24/7 and Reduction
in volumes of calls
Avoiding confusion
Product/Service Gains Creator Pain Relievers
37. Hypothesis: The Structure
We believe that, {the hypothesis}
To verify that we will, {the experiment}
And measure, {the metrics we want to measure}
We are right it, {the success measure}
38. Our Hypothesis
We believe that Mortgage Brokers can have access to a mortgage advisor on the move
and 24/7 to advise them with the best mortgage products for their clients.
To verify that we will implement a virtual mortgage assistant in our mobile banking
app that can analyse financial status of a potential client and advise the best option
And measure the number of times that the virtual mortgage assistant could offer the
right product and also the number of calls made to our advisors during our
experiment
We are right if our VA could advise a right product by 80% and the number of calls
reduced by 30%
39. Metrics
Primary Secondary
Measurement of a task that your customer does with your product/service/feature
Measures the success of
the overall experiment
Measures the extra events
related to the primary metric
41. Prioritise Hypothesis
David J. Bland
https://www.precoil.com/
Desirable
Feasible Viable
Do customers want this?
Should we do this?Can we do this?
(Product, UX)
(Product, Finance, Business)(Engineering, Brand, Legal)
45. The Experimentation Team
Cross Functional
Product
Engineering
User Experience
Data Science
Dedicated , Customer Centric
&
Analytical
Interested Parties+
SMEs
Leadership
46. Choose Type of Experiment
Low-fidelity High-fidelity
Pen & Paper Prototype
Clickable Prototype
Front-end / Client-side
Back-end / Server side
(A/B testing, Call to Action, landing page,
Painted door, …)
The nature of the product and your hypothesis defines the type of experiment
Customer interaction is limited Realistic customer interaction required
(Building SDK, Databases, …)
48. Shape User Group or Model Office
A sample size of the customer segment who will try the solution for
a pre-defined period of time.
1 Form the group prior to running the experiment
2 Share the experiment goal with the group
3 Put in place a set of instructions to mitigate potential risks
50. Run the Experiment
Implement mechanisms to continuously observe and collect data during the
experiment
Continuously observe impacts and identify potential risks
Have an Exit Plan in place and be ready for the worst case scenario
The team should stay available to make any necessary changes while the
experiment is happening
1
2
3
4
52. Results
Collect all qualitative and quantitative data1
Work with the Data Science team to analyse the data2
Issue the draft report and share with few more
people to validate your interpretation of data
3
Produce the final result and Share it!4
55. The Big Picture
How does experimentation fit in to the product
development lifecycle?
56. What is right to build
Building it right
Feedback and Insight
Results
57. The When
Experimentation is part of the iterative process of the Product Discovery and
Development lifecycle.
Think of it as a good Habit that happens all the time.
Product Discovery Optimisation
Heavy weight
Experimentation
Frequent
Experimentation
58. The Culture
It’s how we think It’s the way we act
A thought process Follow a framework
Hypothesis over Idea Test it
Disproving over Failure Disprove safe, Learn fast
Making decisions Follow data
Impact on the customer Iterative process, Continuous feedback
and improvement
Outcome over Output
59. 8 pitfalls to avoid!
Running lengthy experiments1
Designing experiments for scale2
Running not enough experiments
with not enough users
3
Disproving hypothesis is not failure4
Selecting wrong metrics5
Getting confused by analytics6
Thinking that it’s all done by UX7
Expecting that everyone knows
what experimentation is
8
60. Recapping The Goal
Photo by Júnior Ferreira on Unsplash
As your guest speaker,
I tried to give you an idea of
1. What experimentation really means
2. Why it is important
3. How to run a successful one
So hopefully you have seen the real value and you are
now motivated to learn more about experimentation
and apply it to your way of thinking and doing.
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