Fail fast and often (new design)

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Romain Prieto Sept 2011 FAIL

Transcript of Fail fast and often (new design)

Romain Prieto Sept 2011

FAIL

Learning

Repetition to achieve mastery

Growth mindset

How can I improve? What's the next step?

© Roland

Winner of the French Anime Grand Prix"2008 & 2009

When was the last time you tried something new...?

© Theo Folinas

Trial & error

© James Yang

"I was super excited about this two months ago...

...and obviously I was on crack"

(interview for Wired, May 2011)

The God complex

The creation of Adam

Evolutionary design

Set-based concurrent engineering

© Sheldon Brown

Make yourself fail

Tripping up our tests

Standard CI server

Unpredictable CI server

Selenium wait Javascript notifications

???

Shake the bridge… and see what happens

© Petter Bjorstad

The best way to avoid failure

is to fail constantly

© Instituto Politécnico do Porto

#1   Push yourself to improve #2   Don't be afraid to experiment #3   Find failure before it finds you