Lessons about failure from the girl who came last by Elise Aplin at #AgileIndia2019
Everyone has stories of failure. That time you fell off your bike. The day you wore your jumper backwards without realising . That wireframe that confused your customers. The new feature no one used. Failure is an inevitable part of life and as our delivery practices have matured we’ve celebrated the role that failure plays in building our products. We Fail Fast. We Fail Forward. We Fail Better. It almost feels like we want to fail. It’s as if failure itself is our goal. Has this obsession with failure clouded our thinking and distracted us from what we are actually trying to achieve? In this session I will explore the prevailing ideas around failure and how they limit our ability to grow our teams and, just as importantly, the individuals that make up those teams. This talk will leave you with practical actions you can take to create a culture of learning and empowerment…and ultimately create a culture of success rather than failure. More details: https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8456/lessons-about-failure-from-the-girl-who-came-last Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
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Lessons about failure from the girl who came last by Elise Aplin at #AgileIndia2019
- 1. Lessons about failure, from the girl who came last Elise Aplin emaplin@gmail.com
- 3. Why is this story important?
- 4. I’m here to talk about failure
- 5. Who here talks or hears about failure?
- 6. Failure is embedded in many of our practices
- 7. Agile
- 11. Fail fast
- 13. Fail fast Fail often Fail better
- 14. Fail fast Fail often Fail better Fail forward
- 15. Fail fast Fail often Fail better Fail forward Safe to Fail
- 16. Failure is the goal?!
- 17. Nope
- 18. What actually is failure?
- 19. Failure is not setbacks
- 20. Failure is not setbacks Failure is not experimentation
- 21. Failure is experimenting without learning
- 22. Failure is giving up Failure is experimenting without learning
- 23. Failure is giving up Failure is experimenting without learning Failure is abandoning everything
- 24. Failure is giving up Failure is experimenting without learning Failure is abandoning everything Failure is jumping ship
- 25. Failure is clearly, clearly not the goal!
- 26. Well then, what is the goal?
- 27. Growth
- 28. Safe to Fail
- 29. Safe to Grow
- 30. What does a Safe to Grow environment look like? What bits are we doing well? What do we need to do better?
- 31. Safe to Grow is not a digital concept
- 32. Safe to Grow is a high performance concept
- 33. What do high performance environments look like?
- 34. Collective accountability and growth
- 35. Agile
- 36. HDD
- 37. Lean research
- 38. Let’s pat ourselves on the back
- 39. But not too much…
- 40. Individual accountability and growth
- 41. We’re not so good at that
- 42. Which is why I’m here
- 43. Why do we ignore the individual bit?
- 44. Well, um, it’s awkward
- 45. We don’t have the skills
- 46. Maybe it doesn’t even matter?
- 47. Brilliant jerks
- 48. “Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high” Reed Hastings, CEO Netflix
- 49. Ok, do we have a framework for doing this?
- 50. I didn’t come last in the next race
- 51. Focus on goals
- 52. (Very) objective measures of success
- 53. You won’t kick ass all the time
- 55. A culture of candour Radical Candour - Kim Scott
- 56. Safe environment + Framework for accountability + Communication for growth
- 57. What can we do?
- 59. Care about your people. Not your resources.
- 60. Be vulnerable
- 62. Sometimes it’s less safe to grow
- 64. A bajillion goal setting frameworks
- 65. Measure outcomes
- 67. This bit is actually super straightforward
- 68. Have the awkward conversation
- 69. Simply learn how to give feedback
- 70. Have the crucial conversation
- 71. Feedback = observation + the way it made you feel + next steps
- 72. Safe environment + Framework for accountability + Communication for growth
- 73. Where should I focus first?
- 75. It’s the hardest bit
- 76. But it’s the most important bit