3D Agile Leader Model — Intrapreneur: Experimentation

Maggie Sun
8 min readApr 4, 2023

3D Agile Leader Model sheds light on three dimensions required of a “solid” agile leader — Servant Leader, Value Creator, and Intrapreneur. They are the three critical roles a manager must assume to become an agile leader. Each dimension comprises three themes. The third dimension is Intrapreneur, and the second theme of this dimension is Experimentation.

Experimentation is designed to answer just one question: As we consider a new venture, what would be the cheapest, fastest, and least risky way to learn whether this new venture is worth the investment and implementation?

In the same way that we can’t learn without making mistakes, we can’t experiment without occasionally failing. As a matter of fact, we need to have a brand new definition of failure when it comes to experimentation. The key is to learn and learn fast through all the lessons drawn.

There are three pertinent topics in the theme of Experimentation — its finance and objectives, its design and result evaluation, as well as its execution.

How to finance experimentation and what are the objectives?

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Maggie Sun

MBA, certified agile coach and experienced strategy analyst, specializing in business agility, agile leadership, Beyond Budgeting, and general management.