Mark Twain said, “I have known a great many
troubles, but most of them never happened“.
He could have been describing our fears of
the uncertain that keep us in the status quo.
Learn how Agile gives us the tools to fail fast
forward, learn fast, and rapidly innovate.
Safa Hussain (UC Davis)
William Oleksy (UC Davis)
John Miller (Braintrust Consulting Group)
1. Fail Fast Forward: Agile
& Innovation
Safa Hussain, IT Services UCD
William Oleksy CSM IT Services UCD
John Miller CSP, PMP, ITIL Braintrust Consulting Group
2. •Grab an piece of paper
•Write 3 types of risks in your
projects
•Share with your neighbor
Fail Fast, Fail Small, Fail Frequently to Succeed Sooner Rapid Risk Reduction through Rapid Reality ChecksEmpirical approach: Inspect, Adapt, and Learning Objectives: Iterations/Focus/Collaboration/Tools for Transparency
Can’t drive out imperfect knowledge by pretending and predicting. Can not plan out uncertainty.
Trade in the crystal ball for a mirror, asking, What is actually happening?
Agiletakes an EA. t imperfect knowledge through learning about reality as it is today.
Delays learning. Without getting to done, you can’s assess it’s real value.
Multitasking fills the environment with uncertainty, leaving our overactive imaginations to to manf an inexhaustible supply of anxiety.
Agile has a great antidote, which is called a Sprint.
Places goals in a compact time box, suffocating uncertainty, giving it little room to breathe. Minimizes our risk, maximizes learning, and gives stakeholders actual value delivered soon. Instead of failing big at the end , we fail small often.Fail Fast, Small, Frequently
2 minutes (Pass out paper)
State something interesting you learned to your neighbor.1 Minutes.