Comments on: I fail lots

By: Ben Young

Ben Young — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:30:50 +0000

@scollings Agile development is a fantastic evolutionary model. Next step could be to look at what 20% of the development delivers 80% of the results. Could be room for improvement.

@Matt Once you get into the knack of it, it becomes quite a streamlined process.

Food for thought :)

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:46:00 +0000

Yes, your are right a lot people (myself included) don’t try out new ideas because they fear failure. Even though failure is as important, if not more important than succeeding.

By: scollings

scollings — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:33:35 +0000

This is a lot like the approach at my current contract, I’m doing prototyping, where if the thing works then great, however if it fails then great to. The learnings are usually way more important than the actual delivery. See Note1 and Note2 below for context.

Using prototyping allows you to do 1 thing multiple ways really quickly and then pass that learning into the product development. That way, product developers can see different ways to do the same thing and take the bits they want and leave stuff that may have been specified into the product that don’t work.

Note1: prototypes are made to be thrown away anyway – helps to not get precious about it :) .
Note2: I feed all learnings into product development so they don’t make the same mistakes).