Week 1 of Fluxx Labs has just finished. One product is live and the other should be live this morning. Having 2 products taken from idea to being out in the wild by Friday was our target and therefore the measure of success, yet for me the real success of the week is encapsulated in this photo of Mark standing looking wistfully into the ceiling of Fluxx. He was contemplating how to get the bulb out to use to light our video shoot. It struck me that it's been a very long time in my work life since anyone I've worked with has cared enough about the thing they're doing to try to disassemble the building. It also leads me into a list of some of the other things we learned this week in Labs:
• The Labs environment makes people resourceful
• Labs doesn't feel like work but you get more done* in a week than you ever dreamed could be possible
• Labs is not for everyone - beyond the core skill sets people bring the most important thing people bring to Labs is themselves as personalities • Days in the Lab need to be structured by check-ins and reviews not by time-boxing the tasks you need to complete
• Ruthless focus and discipline about what you are doing and why you are doing it are essential at every step of the process
• A parking bay for the inevitable new ideas that crop up is a great way of stopping things from being lost and keeping focus I'm sure I'll add more to this as the products and proposition iterate. Snapshots of our week can be found here http://www.fluxxlabs.tumblr.com
*as in actually done not hypothetically done if the client signs everything off, the other agencies play nice, and several other planets align
Good to read about your Fluxx venture and pour over some interesting recent posts. Hope it goes really well for you and you can FEEL THE FULFILMENT, FUCK YEAH! I saw this and although I know you're SO NOT high street, the idea is an interesting one:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/feb/14/highstreet-clothes-size-chart
Love from Nogbert x
Posted by: Nogbert | February 20, 2012 at 09:21 PM