Failure

Failure

When I hear it said that we should celebrate our failures or that we should “fail fast”, I fear that some people may mistake the intent behind it. The aim is not to fail, but instead to learn from failures. What we should really say is “learn fast” and “celebrate our discoveries”. As a fan…

Quality built-in
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Quality built-in

When you notice that the quality of your product isn’t a high as you’d like, what can you do? It’s useful to start by understanding what quality means for your product: how is it defined, how is it measured, and what level is desirable. For example, if your indicator is the number of “escaped defects”…

Inspiration
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Inspiration

I’m suffering from blogger’s block this weekend – I can’t think of a topic for a new post. I’ve jotted down lots of small things but nothing that I could write more than a paragraph on. But if I dig a bit deeper, I don’t think the topics are the problem – I just can’t…