Key Principle: Decriminalize Mistakes
Explore how decriminalizing mistakes helps software leaders create an Agile culture that supports learning and improvement. Understand the importance of making calculated mistakes, promoting psychological safety, and encouraging error escalation to build high-performing, adaptive teams.
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 ...