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Alan Page, Microsoft
Test Innovation for Everyone
www.eurostarconferences.com
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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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