Exercise 1: Triage Your Test Ideas

List the next five things your team is considering testing.

For each, answer questions 1 and 2 from section 1.1 in writing. Be honest, "we'd ship it anyway" is a common and useful answer.

Run the decision prompt on the two that survive. Pay attention to question 2's arithmetic.

Sort all five into: test it, ship and watch, or research first. Write one line of justification each.

Count how many of the five you were going to test and now won't. For most teams it's two or three, and that's weeks of time recovered.