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...
Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
Did you hear about fuckupnights dot com? (I was reminded that we should not use external links in our posts - so be it)
Do not think that celebrating failures is the appropriate thing to do, would recommend recognizing failures and learning from them. It is part of SWOT analysis, or retrospectives, or lessons learned sessions, or risk status updates.
It is important to de-sect failures from people. If not, it risks to get into blaming, punishment and isolation and on the other side shame, fear and hiding. Bad.
Looking at failures, I often use root cause analysis (RCA) with Ishikawa diagrams and the 5 Why's.
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1 reply by Alexandre Costa
Jan 26, 2020 3:47 PM
Alexandre Costa
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Thomas,
Thank you for sharing you opinion as usual honest and direct I appreciate that characteristics.
I never heard before about that site with a interesting name , now that you mentioned , I am curious and I will take a look.
I agree with you that we should remove the blame culture from the organization, and learn with failures, using all the tools you mentioned to find the causes, however it always seemed strange to me that coaches say to celebrate failures also, unless the true meaning of celebrating is learning from them.
Alexandre.
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Alexandre CostaScrum Master| Integer Consulting - Pictet technologiesLoures, Portugal
Jan 26, 2020 3:39 PM
Replying to Thomas Walenta
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Did you hear about fuckupnights dot com? (I was reminded that we should not use external links in our posts - so be it)
Do not think that celebrating failures is the appropriate thing to do, would recommend recognizing failures and learning from them. It is part of SWOT analysis, or retrospectives, or lessons learned sessions, or risk status updates.
It is important to de-sect failures from people. If not, it risks to get into blaming, punishment and isolation and on the other side shame, fear and hiding. Bad.
Looking at failures, I often use root cause analysis (RCA) with Ishikawa diagrams and the 5 Why's.
Thomas,
Thank you for sharing you opinion as usual honest and direct I appreciate that characteristics.
I never heard before about that site with a interesting name , now that you mentioned , I am curious and I will take a look.
I agree with you that we should remove the blame culture from the organization, and learn with failures, using all the tools you mentioned to find the causes, however it always seemed strange to me that coaches say to celebrate failures also, unless the true meaning of celebrating is learning from them.
Alexandre. Saving Changes...
Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
Alexandre, thanks for the kind words.
Coaches say a lot, maybe to spur attention or trying to make a joke.
What does celebrations mean to most of us? Does it not mostly include highlighting the people? Anybody can call it as they like. I stick with not celebrating failures but talk about them with most benefits for getting more mature. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
Nobody must cellebrate failure. Believe me, I can not put names here, but some companies that in the imagination of people suppose they reward failure is totally the opposite. I worked on those companies you can read as a "model" about the collective imagination on they say "you fail, do not worry, fail again". People need to stop saying that companies reward failure (just my personal opinion, people can say what they like obviously). With that said, what those companies do is to ask you a critical question when you fail: what do you learn from failure because we do not have time to failure again and again. And if you do not demostrate what you learn then you are in a big trouble. The only difference is when you started a R&D initiative where of course you have put on the table why do you started it (for example, you can say "I have no idea about it will work in the real world") then everybody are aware on the high probability of creating something unusable. It is not about failure. It is about fail consciously. Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Alexandre
I agree with Thomas in the sense that failures are an opportunity to lean: FAIL = “First Attempt In Learning”.
We inspect, adapt and do better so we lean from past failures so we can celebrate future success.
RK Saving Changes...
Amiel LopezStrategic Planner| Department of DefenseApo, Ap, United States
Celebrating Failures on all my experiences opened up multiple opportunities to improve, excel and grow. Failure is a sign that the organization is innovating. Saving Changes...
I think that it is more important to learn from mistakes made by others as opposed to your own mistakes. This fail fast theory has been seen as a sort of creation and innovation tool that is based on if at first you don't succeed, try, try again" mentality. I would not see this fail fast approach as the most efficient and best use of your organisations time. Instead, the world is many up of many different personalities and for some innovation and creativity comes naturally to some people and not to others. On the same hand creative people are some times not very well organised and need other types of people to make their idea happen and become reality. Also theorist people are sometime not very outgoing and social people and need other type of people to bring their theories to life. So the architecture and networks for creative and innovations already exists it just about applying the best use of you time.
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dear Alexandre Interesting your question Thanks for sharing
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" - Thomas A. Edison
I am convinced that it depends a lot on the perspective of how failure is viewed Saving Changes...
Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
Great quote Luis :)
Difference b/t celebrating and recognizing failures. There is an underlying aspect of building a strong culture to have a solid foundation of trust and psychological safety to support creativity, innovation, and courage to tying new things w/o fear of recognition of a learning opportunity, e.g. failure. Saving Changes...
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