Readouts / Squad readout workshop
Several experiments, one room
Squad readout workshop
A half-day session with one product squad to walk a backlog of finished experiments and leave with written decision notes.
Some squads do not need a polished memo for a single test. They need a cleared desk. Six experiments sit in a shared drive. Two of the features already shipped “quietly.” The workshop is for that backlog.
We work in English. If the squad switches to Malay for a disagreement, we do not pretend we missed it; we ask for the decision in the language that will be written down.
The room should include the product manager who owns the flag, one engineer who can speak to assignment, and whoever will say no to a ship. Without that third person the afternoon becomes a reading group.
Included
- Prep reading of up to six experiments
- A timed agenda so each experiment gets a decision, not only a discussion
- Decision slips filled in during the session
- A follow-up note within two working days listing what was decided and what was deferred
Not included
- Open enrolment or public classes
- Coaching the company on experiment culture in the abstract
- Rewriting your experiment policy
How the work proceeds
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Triage
We order the backlog by whether a decision is still available. An experiment whose feature already shipped worldwide goes last.
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Room
Each experiment gets a fixed block: result, disagreement, decision, owner of the next step.
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Leave-behind
You keep the slips. We send a short record so the conversation does not live only in someone’s memory of the afternoon.
Preparation
A shared folder with each experiment’s hypothesis, results table, and current (even if unofficial) decision.
Limits
The workshop is not a training course with certificates. It is a working session on your actual experiments.
Next step
Propose two half-day windows and the list of experiments you want in the room.