Key Principle: Decriminalize Mistakes
Learn how to encourage the calculated mistakes that are required for teams to Inspect and Adapt.
ABOUT THIS CHAPTER The majority of Agile practices are team-based practices that provide support for team performance, learning, and improvement. Leaders also have an opportunity to expand team-level principles to organization-level work. This chapter describes how to support more effective Agile practices at the organizational level.
As I’ve mentioned, Agile development depends on the use of Inspect and Adapt, a learning cycle that depends on making calculated mistakes, learning from them, and improving. By “calculated mistake” I mean making a decision when you know you are not confident in the result and being attentive to learn from the result, regardless of how well it turns out.
In Cynefin terms, ...