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My proposal was simple: create a one-page guidance document that laid out, in plain English, a series of parameters within which innovation teams would be pre-cleared to work. 1. If you're doing a tiny MVP experiment with fewer than X customers possibly affected, total liability of Y, and a cost of Z, you're pre-approved. 2. If the experiment is a success and you want do a "scaling MVP" of a little bit greater complexity and bigger numbers for X, Y, and Z, it's deemed approved in advance as long as: (a) it's built on an initial MVP and (b) you have managerial sign-off. 3. If you want to exceed these guidelines for something larger or more complex, you need to discuss it with legal. Here's the hotline to call ... You probably won't be surprised to learn that the first version of this one-page document that the legal team created was ... ten pages long.