Alexandre CostaScrum Master| Integer Consulting - Pictet technologiesLoures, Portugal
Build in time to experiment–and fail and learn fast is already common practice in many corporations.
High-tech firms like Google, who famously has a 20 percent time allotment for working on personal interest projects that benefit the company.But building experimentation into other departments is also important for true innovation.
You can build experimentation into your project management culture by:
1 - Building dedicated testing time into each employee’s week
2 - Scheduling project sharing sessions where teams can collaborate on the success of creative projects
3 -Celebrate failures as well as wins
But do you really believe that companies celebrate failures as well? Saving Changes...
LORI WILSONRETIRED - Technical Project Manager| RETIRED - LifePoint HealthClarkston, Wa, United States
Hello Alexandre: I don't know if I have celebrated failures before, but what completing lessons learned we do try to call out failures and consider them. I loved the quote Luis shared by Thomas Edison. It's true and it is very important how we perceive things! Saving Changes...
Alexandre CostaScrum Master| Integer Consulting - Pictet technologiesLoures, Portugal
Thank you all , for sharing your precious and valuable opinions and contribute to the discussion.
As others have said, we shouldn't celebrate ALL failures. If the failure was the result of an experiment and we learned something which would have cost us much more to learn some other way, then that is definitely worth celebrating. If we are just repeating the same mistakes over and over then there is no reason to celebrate Einstein's definition of insanity!
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Anton OosthuizenSenior Business Analyst / Project Manager| Self EmployedPretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
I believe in acknowledging, sharing and learning from failure but not really in celebrating them. I believe in not seeing failure as an inability of us not being able to achieve something (too many negatives ;) )
But I also think that the 'celebration' of failure could be linked to a specific situation i.e. if you are trying to find out why something is not working you might try different things to fix it. With each 'failure' you are ruling out that possibility hence you have a reason to celebrate in the sense that 'yippee now I know it is not that'. Saving Changes...
