The number one thing most HR & TA leaders get wrong! They want it to be perfect before they launch it out to the organization. The problem is, it will never be perfect. So, just ship it! Let everyone know this is version 1.0. We're going to keep making it better, but we need to see what will work and what won't. Make it exist first!
I get the “version 1.0” mindset, but it doesn’t translate cleanly into HR and compliance work. In the military, hesitation in combat can cost lives. Sometimes any decision is better than no decision. Compliance and risk mitigation are different environments. “Just ship it” works for software features. It doesn’t work for pay practices, investigations, policy changes, regulatory exposure, or talent acquisition strategy. In HR, a sloppy rollout creates legal liability, and operational chaos that’s far harder to unwind than taking the time to do it right. I’ve seen the “just get it across the finish line” mindset during an HRIS migration. It wasn’t innovation. It was rushed execution, and it ultimately cost the company millions to fix. The same applies to poor talent acquisition decisions. One rushed framework can impact multiple hiring cycles and take years to correct.
Stuck in the part where the company does not even allow projects to exist 🙃
This is so true. “Ship it and iterate” is standard practice in product, marketing, sales… even finance. But in HR and TA, there’s still this pressure to get everything perfect before anyone sees it. A clear v1.0 with real feedback will always beat a polished version that never shows up.
Uuuuggghhhh, I can't tell you how much I love this. I see it way to often that people get in their own way of progress because they need things to be "perfect." Whatever that even means, because often they don't know what that would look like anyways. I like to look at things as 80% perfect, 100% done. THEN you go continually improve. This way you actually GET THINGS DONE!
Going with a minimum viable product now vs. someday going with the perfect solution is almost always the better play. You don't even know what perfect is until it exists and is used. We need to be comfortable with beta versions so that we can test, learn and adapt solutions to evolving business needs.
I think some leaders get stuck in analysis paralysis, and sometimes miss out on something amazing due to the lack of perfection.
100% guilty here
Absolutely! Building the plane while flying it is my comfort zone!
I disagree with your post and picture. You talk perfection, with I agree with. Then you switch to good in your picture. Perfect and good are a long ways apart. If what you launch is not good, you risk adoption and long term failure. Having controlled pilots in a small part of the organization allows some level of misstep without leaving scorched earth. Second HR organizations are often last in line for resources, so a launch that is function with the intent to "fix it later" often never gets the resources again to get it fixed.