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Team mantras these days seem to be all about acceleration: Get stuff done. Fail fast. Learn fast. Move fast and break things. Even our methods emphasize the need for speed: Agile. Sprint. Rapid prototyping. And while there's no doubt that traditional design approaches are slow, it seems we're still wasting money on tech that doesn't meet our needs, building stuff we can't scale, disappointing stakeholders and frustrating users. There's a lot of effort and uncertainty involved in getting from, "What should we build?" to delivery of a viable, feasible, and desirable solution.

In this session you will explore the concept of innovation governance: a framework for capturing ideas, prioritizing them, and developing solutions that solve user problems. You'll learn how frameworks like design thinking, lean, and Agile can be integrated to help you find patterns in the noise and then turn those insights into low-cost experiments. Internalize the mindset of "start small and scale" and walk away with ideas for how to test the validity of your design before you invest in development.

In this session, you will learn:

• The concept of innovation governance
• Tools for capturing ideas and feedback so they can be synthesized for insight
• A framework for prototyping methods and how to choose the right tool for what you need to learn
• A five-step process for running successful prototyping experiments

Technology discussed:
Trello, Quora, Reddit, usertesting.com