PopcornFlow
A 7-step decision cycle for continuous innovation and change
"If change is hard, make it continuous.
If continuous is hard, make it small."
What It Solves
Most teams know they need to change, but they struggle with how. Retrospectives produce action items that never get done. Bold ideas die in committee. Fear of failure keeps everyone playing it safe.
The 7 Steps
PopcornFlow turns ideas into action through a continuous cycle of small, safe-to-fail experiments.
Problems & Observations
Identify and expand problems into trees of sub-problems and observations
Options
Brainstorm strategies to address or minimise each problem
Possible Experiments
Design concrete, small experiments to explore each option
Committed
Select and commit to specific experiments to run
Ongoing
Execute experiments — most last one week or less
Review
Evaluate results against expectations — what did we learn?
Next
Decide next steps: adopt, adapt, or abandon
“My teams love PopcornFlow! It's helping them become more self-organized and more agile.
“PopcornFlow enables self-organized rapid change like nothing else I've seen or used.
Created by Claudio Perrone
Claudio developed PopcornFlow while coaching teams across Europe. The methodology has been adopted by teams at Toyota, Spotify, Capital One, Honeywell, and many others.