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Case Study: How Schuh Built a
Testing Team
Stuart McMillian
Schuh LTD.
Deputy Head of Ecommerce
@mcmillanstu
Pop Quiz Time!
 Who is client-side?
 Who has dedicated
testing resources?
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Who is this guy?!
 Scottish
 Geek
 Favourite board
game: Monopoly
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What well cover
 The schuh context
 Building a testing culture
 Must try harder
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The schuh
context
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A bit of schuh background
 Founded 1981
 99 stores
 Multichannel
 Customer
service focused
 Systems driven
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Ecom Challenges  A multi device world
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Mobile
Tablet
Ecom Challenges  A multi device world
schuh traffic by device since Feb 2012
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Ecom Challenges  A multi device world
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Results
you cant
always
measure
Ecom Challenges  A multi device world
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Increasingly
competitive
marketplace
Ecommerce
Mobile Site
November 2011
Tablet Site
November 2012
Responsive Pilot
November 2013
Schuh Responsive
July 2014
Trading Online
2001
@mcmillanstu
Head of
Ecommerce
Digital
Marketing
Digital
Merchandising
Online
Development &
Optimisation
Web Editorial Analytics Insight
Deputy Head of
Ecommerce
Ecommerce  Team Structure
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Building a
testing culture
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This is not an anti-agency rant
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Status Quo Ante
 Conversion focused
 Systems driven
 Customer-centric
 Self Reliant
 Project cycles
 Backlog/Dev resource
 Poor instrumentation
 Self Reliant
Strengths Weaknesses
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The watershed moment
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Stop, collaborate and listen
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Growing the team, widening the effort
 Identify bottlenecks,
resource appropriately
 Democratisation of
effort to entire
department & beyond
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Tools of the trade
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Training, Development & Support
Broaden Horizons
 GA
 PRWD
 Optimizely
 Conferences
 The Internet!
Set New Standards
1. Mobile first
2. User-centric design
3. Fast
4. Analytics ready
5. SEO as standard
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Areas of improvement
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Hypothesis
Creation
Areas of improvement
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These arent the results youre looking for
Test Analysis
Areas of improvement
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Evangelise
further
Danger!
Dont build new walls!
@mcmillanstu
@mcmillanstu
If you always do what youve always done, youll always get
what you always got
Contact Info
Stuart McMillan
Schuh LTD.
Deputy Head of Ecommerce
Email: StuartM@schuh.co.uk
@mcmillanstu
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