The Product Triathlon / 3X
Kent Beck, the creator of XP (Extreme Programming) and one of the original Agile Manifesto signatories, has recently been pushing a new product development model: the Product Development Triathlon, or 3X for short. The triathlon has three parts: Explore, Expand, Extract.
(from his talk at Andela - Nairobi, in December 2016)
- Explore: As many experiments as possible, as quickly as possible, to figure out what we should dedicated our resources to.
- Expand: We now know what to focus on, so all we care about is growth. We have to work like hell to do whatever we gotta to grow that user base.
- Extract: Super boring / not taking any chances / 100% refinement. “Can we increase global advertising sales by .3%? Let’s talk about it. Yep, should definitely invite Legal to the meeting.”
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