Alan Page, Microsoft

Test Innovation for Everyone

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Innovation

Ideas

Test

Innovation

Test

Ideas

We don’t know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do

not get them from our laptops.

Ideas

Ideas

Ideas

Ideas

Ideas

Ideas

Ideas

Ideas

Ideas

Ideas

Ideas

Ideas

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent. Curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

The Adjacent Possible

“The premise that

innovation prospers when ideas can serendipitously

connect and recombine with other

ideas”

“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things” - Lazarus Long (via Robert Heinlein)

If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original. - Gary Panter

Component Coverage

Fizz 70%

Buzz 62%

FizzBuzz 81%

Component Tests

Fizz a,b,d,e,f,g,y

Buzz b,c,d,r,s,t

FizzBuzz a,b,d,e,f,r,t,u,v,z

“We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb”

The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning - a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty

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