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2013-09-10 Hamburg, Otto, Loft 06

Judith Andresen - Make Mistakes The Right Way

Define The Unspeakable

Result

• establishment
• project
• uniform

moral concepts (negotiable)

• hanseatic
• freaked out / nerdic
• cutting edge

basic assumption

They are teached/ already at school level (errors are bad, don't do something wrong).

• what can i do
• who am i able to add critic to
• natur
• fellow men
• industry

From the school already, we get trained to:

• it is bad to say "that was my fault"
• shift the know error to others
• there is one majority out there who decides if this is a bad error
• be perfect
• always have a fallback (not to lose the face)

Define A Good Error Culture

This goals can be achived by exemplify the following steps (best by upper management but important for all).

• "good" is enough
• no fear of mistakes
• many/fast update cycles (don't try to do big jumps, doing small steps results in small mistakes)
• straightforwardness
• to take the blame is not important
• do not repeat your mistakes
• do small and usefull steps (validate if your change contains a "only if")
• use and understand the Twelve Principles of Agile Software
• celebrate reached goals

Slides are available on judiths page. Again a nice talk and incredible what kind of easy mistakes we are doing in our regular live.