My proposal was simple: create a one-page guidance document that laid out, in plain English, a series of parameters within which innovation teams would be pre-cleared to work. If you’re doing a tiny MVP experiment with fewer than X customers possibly affected, total liability of Y, and a cost of Z, you’re pre-approved. If the experiment is a success and you want do a “scaling MVP” of a little bit greater complexity and bigger numbers for X, Y, and Z, it’s deemed approved in advance as long as: (a) it’s built on an initial MVP and (b) you have managerial sign-off. If you want to exceed these
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