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Failure versus experimentation

Failure versus experimentation

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Failure versus experimentation

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- Ugh, I don't know if this is right. Can you review this pullover request one more time? - It looks good. - Yeah? - I know you are nervous but it's important to fail fast. Let's deploy and get a result. - Done. - Fail fast? What are you talking about? We don't want to fail at all. No, don't deploy it. What we need to do is come up with more requirements and make sure it's absolutely perfect. - But we have an automated test suite and continuous delivery set up for a reason. We can always roll back if we find an issue. - No, it's not supposed to fail. I'll pull together a committee. - There are a few flashbulb moments in my journey to embracing agile, and one of the biggest ones is about how I learned to reframe failure. My business partner and I were working on a problem and thinking through all the different ways to approach it. And then he said, we need to fail fast. This threw me for a complete loop…

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