SEEK Case Study
Link here: https://www.producttalk.org/2019/04/seek-case-study/
AHA moments
All points come from different replies.
- The "aha!" moment was when we learned to structure and classify our assumptions.
- Many moments: aligning business needs with customer needs, integrating OKRs with discovery process and the power of visualising the journey map.
- Being specific about our assumptions and what evidence we’d need to see to de-risk them was an aha moment. This took a process that was happening in a more intuitive, generalized way, and made it explicit.
Differences In Work Approach
- Now have processes in place for managing discovery activities.
- They start with multiple ideas, clearly articulate how we believe they will deliver value and what risky assumptions underlie that belief. This provides us a framework to prove or disprove those assumptions and identify means of measuring the relative value these ideas deliver. Our value delivery is no longer tied to the success (or otherwise) of any particular idea.
- Focusing on de-risking our assumptions has been really useful.
- We’re interviewing customers almost every week (sometimes it doesn’t come together!), whether that be exploratory interviewing or running more evaluative experiments with specific solutions. Our knowledge of our customers’ wants, needs, pain points, and jobs has increased. You hear customer anecdotes thrown around casually from different members of the team now, which is great.