How to get started

At first, do not start with a large team or a significant budget. Instead, pick a few small projects where success can be shown and use them for training people on how to plan uncertain projects with a discovery-driven approach.

• It means planning via checkpoints,
• people learning the approach to testing and learning,
• discovering which assumptions are valid, and
• experimentation.

Progress metrics for innovation is different from the established business. Relevant metrics include progress through checkpoints, the speed of experimentation, interactions with customers, ideas rejected.