Professor Ian Anderson
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Australian National University
“We can pick out ideas that we know have a better chance of success, and we are able to reduce so much wasted investment. Think about all the costs that go into executing projects that don’t end up delivering the outcomes that you wanted. We’ve struggled with this over the years, and this is exactly why rapid experimentation is the answer.”
Christina Zavalis
Head of Supply Sustainability and Technology, Treasury Wine Estates
“Leslie is a fantastic facilitator and he made the introduction to Pretotyping very exciting and engaging. So important to start with the problem you are trying to solve before you jump to solution mode. The ability to establish experiments using the methods taught is delivering real business value to the teams.”
Scott Thomson
Head of Innovation & Customer Engineering, Google
“Leslie has a deeply purposeful connection to the pretotyping philosophy and he has done amazing work in industrialising the training, tools and methodologies to truly bring pretotyping to life in companies ranging from digital natives all the way through to large enterprises.”
Glenn King
CEO, PEXA (Digital Conveyancing)
“If you want to be a fast-paced, customer-led organisation… You have to be thinking constantly about how you’re going to expand and grow across all dimensions, and you want to have experimentation and innovation as central… Pretotyping is an important element of that.”
Richard Guy
Head of Emerging Product, AGL Energy
“We run 1000 tests a year, and it’s probably going to be 2000 next year… This really high number of tests means we’re getting smarter [as a company]... This gives us an enormous amount of credibility and we have confidence in stopping things if that’s what the data says.”
Dan Roesler
Executive Manager & Customer Assets, PEXA (Digital Conveyancing)
“The Pretotyping course and rapid experimentation saved our organisation $200,000 before lunchtime on day 2! This should be BAU in every leading organisation.”
Edison Tse
Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering & Introduction to Product Management, Stanford University
“Thanks for giving a guest lecture in my Product Management class on the topic "pretotyping". The lecture not only gives a convincing argument why pretotyping is very useful in developing MVP, it also gives students practice guidance in implementing the idea. The students love the class and they applied pretotyping to test the validity of their assumptions before designing MVP’s in the class project.”
Greg Booker
CIO, RACQ (Insurance and Roadside Assist)
“What we did learn quickly, and for little outlay, was that there was no point developing a fully-fledged service in the hope that people would come. The experiment proved that they wouldn’t. We saved a few hundred thousand dollars by stopping.”
Michael Miller
Executive Chairman, Newscorp Australia
“From prototyping to pretotyping. A great look at new models of product development in the Australian Financial Review newspaper… Using pretotyping and digital for data-driven innovation as is NewsCorp Australia’s NewsBolt Accelerator.”