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Deployment Isn't Adoption

  • 2025-2026
  • 12 month rollout
  • 106 stations
  • Behavioral measurement

A replacement app reached the field, but the real leadership work was making adoption visible, trustworthy, and operationally safe enough to scale.

RoleSr. Manager, Product Design
TeamRAMP Upload, Alaska Airlines
TimelineApr 2025 to Apr 9, 2026
FocusBehavioral measurement, Go/No-Go, field adoption

The Handoff

The app could launch before the behavior changed.

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Draft visual slot: the moment where deployment and adoption split into separate problems.

The surface story was a rollout: replace an old scanning workflow and get stations onto the new mobile app. The leadership story was sharper. A deployed tool can still fail if the people under pressure do not trust it enough to change behavior.

This page is intentionally draft-level for now. The structure is here so the final narrative can focus on Tre's leadership choices: how the rollout was sequenced, how evidence replaced assumption, and how field feedback changed the operating model.

Diagnosis

Deployment metrics were not enough.

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01Installed did not mean used.

The rollout story could not stop at devices, access, and training completion. Agents still had to trust the new workflow under live operational pressure.

RAMP mobile application screens
02Speed created a new responsibility.

RAMP Upload made same-day fixes possible. That was a strength, but it also meant release discipline had to become part of the operating model.

Operational rollout still
03The field needed a signal.

Without adoption instrumentation, leaders could celebrate deployment while frontline teams quietly worked around the product.

Adoption System

The sequence was launch, signal, response.

  1. Separate launch from adoption
  2. Start with a smaller rollout
  3. Instrument actual behavior
  4. Watch station-level variance
  5. Pair fixes with field guidance
  6. Scale the operating rhythm

The final version should show how Tre made adoption manageable: smaller rollout surfaces, clearer instrumentation, faster release response, and field guidance that helped stations understand what changed and why.

The creative lens should stay grounded. This is not a story about shipping an app. It is a story about building the leadership system that made launch mean something.

Result

Adoption became something the team could see and manage.

106Stations live across Alaska network
+131%Informational scanning across the RAMP system
+75%Agent adoption at challenging stations
7 to 3Average baggage delay minutes
Same dayHotfix capability paired with stronger release judgment

The final proof layer should connect every number to the leadership behavior behind it: sequencing, instrumentation, field trust, and the discipline to treat rollout as an operating system.

Output

The adoption arc.

What I'd Refine

Name the adoption system earlier.

The final version should make the core leadership lesson explicit sooner: deployment is an event, adoption is a managed system.

Add the real artifacts that prove the operating model: rollout plans, dashboards, release guidance, field notes, or station-level adoption evidence.