The Shortest Distance Between You and Your New Product Quotes

“If we push to make Key Decisions too early, then we are likely to revisit them later when it ‘s more expensive and painful to undo them. If we guess, we are much more likely to be wrong because it’s new to us. We handle Key Decisions in deliverables with placeholders: “This decision will be made at the September 30 Integration Event.” We can also put in provisional decisions: “The current plan is to use XYZ supplier’s solution, and we will finalize that decision on September 30 after we receive and test samples.”
― Katherine Radeka, The Shortest Distance Between You and Your New Product: How Innovators Use Rapid Learning Cycles to Get Their Best Ideas to Market Faster, 2nd Edition

“People are used to sharing their activities in meetings, and so that’s what they do—instead of sharing what they learned, they share what they did.”
― Katherine Radeka, The Shortest Distance Between You and Your New Product: How Innovators Use Rapid Learning Cycles to Get Their Best Ideas to Market Faster, 2nd Edition

“The Program Leader focuses the team’s learning on the Key Decisions to help them recognize the knowledge that is most important for them to build: the most important Knowledge Gaps.”
― Katherine Radeka, The Shortest Distance Between You and Your New Product: How Innovators Use Rapid Learning Cycles to Get Their Best Ideas to Market Faster, 2nd Edition