Unit 5: Evaluation and Measuring Change
A good pilot is quick, cheap, and easy.
- Quick – it has to be doable in four weeks or less; no one is going to wait for a six month pilot, because the decision will already have been made.
- Cheap – generally the raw cost should be less than $1,000.
- Easy – you should be able to do this entirely on your team. No laying code or creating durable artifacts; other than consulting legal, compliance, and other folks to ensure a strong ethical foundation, you need to do it yourself. Why? Because you don’t have any evidence that it works yet!
Activity:
Plan a pilot to test an intervention for eating M&Ms and post what you would do.
Check does your pilot meet the criteria of quick, cheap, and easy? Why or why not?