Hypothesis Validation: What We Learned from Breaking Bad, Heisenberg and Real Life
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The talk examines hypothesis validation in product development, arguing that many agile adopters wrongly focus on delivering projects quickly under false certainty and end up building solutions to non-existent problems. It discusses using practices such as Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Agile to identify real user problems and test hypotheses before investing time and money.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:20Uncertainty principle
- 7:16Hippo and decision culture
- 10:08EBS and fast hypothesis testing
- 14:58GoPro and Hotel Haiti cases
- 18:49Clear problem and goal
- 24:44User feedback and learning
- 30:59Ego management and politics
- 36:19Three innovation horizons
- 41:13Experimentation culture
- 44:04MVP and maximum shame
- 46:56Defining metrics and learning
- 49:43Agile delivery and continuous learning
- 51:28Product evolution and survival
- 53:35Taking product ownership
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