starting up and improving on the way
TRANSCRIPT
Elad Ash, VP of R&D
STARTING UP AND IMPROVINGON THE WAY
Let’s start easy:What do you need to do?
IMPROVE.
Velocity.Quality.Scalability.Engagement.Performance.Infrastructures.Recruitment.User Experience.StabilityEtc....
Improve what?
Change for the better.
But change introduces problems1. Antagonism.2. Inconvenience.3. Risk.4. Convincing.
Improve - definition
Hard:How to make sure we change for the better?
Answer:You can’t!
YES YOU CAN!
Tweak - How to make sure we change for the better QUICKLY
YES YOU CAN!
By doing: Small, Measurable Changes.
Step 1:Educate for ownership and flexibility
Bottom upWorkers knows better than managers.
Handle the pains of the one that are required to change.
Expect and listen to objections.
Mentor and Delegate
This will create ownership
Be FlexibleYou don’t know where you’ll end, so:Build a flexible structure That can scale.
Gray Area for full image
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so
Douglas Adams
Learn and studyLearn from others and use consultants
But… take only what you need.
Step 2:Change something
Gray Area for full image
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
Albert Einstein
Step 3:Expect mistakes
Gray Area for full image
Anyone who has never made a mistake never tried anything new
Albert Einstein
Step 4:Learn from your mistakes
Gray Area for full image
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men
Charles Darwin
Step 5:Doubt your beliefs
Gray Area for full image
I never said half the crap people say I did.
Albert Einstein
Step 6:Repeat the process
Gray Area for full image
To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often
Winston Churchill
Fine tuning1. Educate for flexibility and ownership.2. Change something small with care.3. Measure, expect mistakes and learn from results4. Doubt your beliefs.5. Repeat
a.k.a - Small measureable changes
The promiseORWhat’s in it for you.
You will1. Reduce risks.2. Change faster.3. To the better.4. Prove your right by doing, rather than by
arguing.5. Lower credit burn.
But mostly, build an organization that has…
Gray Area for full image
Flexibility to change
Charles Darwin
It is not the strongest or intelligent of the species that survive, it is the one most adaptive to change
Did you ever stop to think, and then forget to start again…
AA Milne
Questions ?
AA Milne