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Pivot or Persevere
Deciding at set points whether the evidence supports refining an approach or changing it fundamentally.
What is Pivot or Persevere?
Deciding at set points whether the evidence supports refining an approach or changing it fundamentally.
What you learn
Decide on evidence, and name the one assumption you’d change.
When it helps
repeated experiments aren’t improving results, or the team changes direction without keeping what it learned.
Use it at work
- Set review dates, and the results you need by each.
- At each review, compare the results with the plan.
- If they fall short, name the assumption that failed.
- Change that assumption, and keep what worked.
Your output
At your next review point, list the evidence for continuing, and name the specific assumption you’d change if you changed direction.
Watch for
Persevering out of hope, or changing direction without saying what was wrong.
Related practices
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