This is a topic near and dear to my heart that you and I have discussed many time! Thanks for such a clear description of "Learning from Failure". It triggered two things for me:
1) I recently ran a "Failure Workshop" for a client, and along with Lessons Learned we also had a goal of healing from the failure. Team failure can be emotionally impactful and hold teams back, especially if they have trouble accepting the failure. At the end of our Failure workshop, we held a serenity prayer that I rewrote. My version :- "We request the wisdom to understand the difference between circumstances ("things") that can and cannot be changed, asking courage to take action in the case of the former, and serenity to accept in the case of the latter."
2) I also completely agree with learning from other's failures. At one CTO position, I was proposing to move all high-traffic websites to Drupal, a PHP-based modern CMS. I found someone who had made a similar proposal and implementation a few years early, and had some serious performance issues in their deployments. I was able to get details on all of their failures and adjust our plans accordingly to make sure we did not have the same!
Mike,
This is a topic near and dear to my heart that you and I have discussed many time! Thanks for such a clear description of "Learning from Failure". It triggered two things for me:
1) I recently ran a "Failure Workshop" for a client, and along with Lessons Learned we also had a goal of healing from the failure. Team failure can be emotionally impactful and hold teams back, especially if they have trouble accepting the failure. At the end of our Failure workshop, we held a serenity prayer that I rewrote. My version :- "We request the wisdom to understand the difference between circumstances ("things") that can and cannot be changed, asking courage to take action in the case of the former, and serenity to accept in the case of the latter."
2) I also completely agree with learning from other's failures. At one CTO position, I was proposing to move all high-traffic websites to Drupal, a PHP-based modern CMS. I found someone who had made a similar proposal and implementation a few years early, and had some serious performance issues in their deployments. I was able to get details on all of their failures and adjust our plans accordingly to make sure we did not have the same!
Looking forward to more failure discussion.