starting up and improving on the way

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.

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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

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Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

Albert Einstein

Step 3:Expect mistakes

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Anyone who has never made a mistake never tried anything new

Albert Einstein

Step 4:Learn from your mistakes

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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

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I never said half the crap people say I did.

Albert Einstein

Step 6:Repeat the process

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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…

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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