The ever-changing world that requires us to constantly be experimenting, to resist creating safety, is driven by the fact that the stakeholders we serve are curious, dissatisfied, or uncomfortable. Everyone else can largely be ignored and refuse to show interest.
The good news is that two amazing things we can leverage, big shifts in the way we can test feasibility with our stakeholders:
- It’s cheaper, quicker and easier than ever to create a prototype or a proof of concept. This is true for paper mock-ups, as well as for high-fidelity models or usable MVP’s.
- It’s cheaper, quicker and easier than ever to find the early champions, to engage with stakeholders who are seeking better.
This means each of us is in the hot seat to make a proposition. Shape a promise. Choose your dimensions, find the stakeholders who seek to change, and show up with your best work.
Call it an experiment if you want to.
But it’s project life.
The project life of engaging with what’s possible, and of mobilising stakeholders who want to make a change.
Always be seeking, empathising, investigating, solving, seeing, believing, and yes, experimenting.
The other way to read this is: always be failing.
Well, not always. Sometimes you’ll succeed. But a lot of the time, you’ll be failing. And that’s okay.